Democracy, George Orwell, and Individualism
The American government was created on righteous morals created out of the ashes of governments of the past that had failed such as, Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. Many great and brilliant minds were put together to come up with a government based around, liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. The one problem that emerged is that which we all have, we are all human. Humans seem to have many weaknesses, and these weaknesses are normal and that is how humans were developed. Over our lifetime we develop: greed, power, lust, hate, deceitfulness, and betrayal. Since humans created this supposedly perfect government, and run it, then how can those just morals be applied? Since the beginning of Democracy, the United States have had normal occurrences with problems as like many other countries, but the problem is that the United States is unjustly spreading this so-called perfect government, and forcing others countries that we have “freed” to adopt Democracy. These other countries should have a choice, and who are we to say, “This is how it should be!” By forcing and ruling the people of the world with censorship and brainwashing, we have built ourselves up to the image of “Big Brother” (George Orwell, 1984)
, which is a thought controlling power ruled by a Dictatorship and covered up by a equality facade through censorship. I believe the statement written by Mr. Zernone is very true because the wars and foreign policies, that we have just learned, all have some little detail about forcing countries to accept Democracy. Once many wars were concluded the United States tried to put in a strict set of laws much like our own, the ideal behind Democracy are not bad, but what is bad is forcing countries to adapt rules without a choice, or severe consequences will take place. If we are to make sure another war doesn’t happen the one thing we should do is to let the countries grow independently and to choose for themselves. The five conflicts that show the most common action of the real reason why we invaded are: World War Two, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam, and Operation Iraq. Some of the foreign policies that fit these wars are: the Kellog-Braind Act, Yalta Conference, Cold War Containment Policy, and the SALT Treaties. After the second war in Europe ended, and Hitler lost all power the Allies needed to find a way to successfully rebuild Europe and so they put all their ideas into the Yalta Conference. The Yalta Conference was composed of all of the Allies and the main territories that were under each of the “good guys” control. One part of the conference that I found interesting was when all of the Allies agreed on the new governments that should be put into place over the old Dictatorships “The establishment of order in Europe and the rebuilding of national economic life must be achieved by processes which will enable the liberated peoples to destroy the last vestiges of nazism and fascism and to create democratic institutions of their own choice. This is a principle of the Atlantic Charter - the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live - the restoration of sovereign rights and self-government to those peoples who have been forcibly deprived to them by the aggressor nations” (Yalta Conference, Part II). By the time that World War Two ended the United States had grown from isolationist to “Big Brother”, most of the decisions were created by them, and as it said in the quote “to create democratic institutions of their own choice”, which will be monitored closely by who other then “Big Brother” himself. I believe wrongly in the fact that the United States would come in and remove the cultures and religion of the former country, and then proceed to force the “democratic institution” of the United State’s choice. That seems like a prime example of some Orwellian terms to me. I see “The Cold War Containment Policy” as the pow
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