Though our class is transitioning into another unit and away
from technology as a way of taking over, the last show and tell made me rethink
another anime I had once seen. An anime called Psycho-Pass focuses on the law
enforcement system. They have a system called the sibyl system where police
officers are helped by enforcers. They use guns that determine the level of
violence a person is exhibiting or can exhibit. The determining value is on a
likert scale. If the person is seen to be violent, they are wasted and the
world is made “a better place”. A new officer begins to work in the force and
finds a flaw in the system when a woman that is raped is determined to be a
criminal because of the violence associated with her. Akane Tsunemori, the
rookie officer, decides to fight against the sibyl system and take things into
her own hands when she realizes the system is flawed due to the technology.
This relates to our class because it relates to the
anxieties of the present being shown in the assumptions of the future. The
anxiety shows that our government can become more powerful than it needs to be
with the aide of technology, especially within law enforcement. Even further
this relates to the flaws of technology.
Technology cannot always be correct and Psycho Pass shows
that flaws in technology can actually make the world worse off than it already
is. Since we are becoming more reliant on technology, it is seen that the reliance
can be detrimental to our society. Death can become elevated because of our
idea that technology cannot be flawed. This anxiety is seen throughout our unit
as we fear what technology can do to our society. Our society is being
controlled by technology and this control is becoming even stronger. Psycho
Pass exemplifies how technology improvements can be a negative step in the
future direction. This can be related to technology not having the judgment that
people have as technology cannot assess situations with human emotions like
humans so rightly can.
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