Examples Of Totalitarianism In The Giver

Two of the principal ways in which totalitarian control of a society can be exercised are by controlling the use of language and by restricting memory. Learning the secret history of humanity in the abyss of clouds, on the edge of a city that resembles Washington with its Masonic constructions carried to the extreme of technological "harmony," The Giver shows the use of totalitarian control of the society on the suppressed individuals.
The Giver is all about the great public relations ideologues, where ideas have surreptitiously become part of American neoliberal politics. the people must be protected from their own decisions, since it is by definition ignorant: for this, a hyper-efficient technocratic society, led by an elite and enlightened by science and progress is run by eliminating the past that tends to circles).
That is why words used to refer to emotions, such as "love," remain just as vague phantoms behind the imprints that governmental content. That is why the greatest danger facing a society is to abolish historical memory, which has already tried to construct these utopias led by an elite that seeks to protect us from ourselves; because even we can lose the memory of who we are and stop accessing an essential content of our being such as the emotions or the inclination to poetically inhabit the world.
Within the framework of the creation of a genetically engineered trans-humanist utopian society, the possibility is suggested that pain is born of difference (the difference produced by fanaticism, war, racism, etc.), and therefore it is better to abolish it. For this, it is necessary to abolish also the emotions and all their records since they easily trigger passions and they produce the great conflicts that we all know, that make billions of people suffer on the face of the