Pledge of Allegiance

In recent discussion in our class, the question of dystopia existing in our current society has arose. We analyzed certain propaganda in the topics of war, government control, and religion. Dystopia has been proven to exist in the United States with its own pledge of allegiance.

In the U.S Constitution, the people are promised many forms of freedom such as freedom of speech, freedom of happiness, and freedom of religion. We see all types of people practicing different religions. In some cities we see Catholic churches while in other cities we see mosques for Muslim practice. Not everyone in this country believes in the same God or in any God. Having "under one God" in the pledge of allegiance gives the feeling that the everyone in the United States praises the same figure. The government is promoting a certain religion when the document they live by states that everyone has the right to believe in what ever they want.

Their has been controversy over reciting the pledge of allegiance in public schools. School systems have made it mandatory for all students to recite the pledge. Since the schools are public, the student body includes foreigners and people of different beliefs. The society that we live in is most certainly a dystopia because the government system is coercing people to participate in praising a God that may not exist to some people.

I have seen many people become affected by the recitation of the pledge of allegiance. Some students, who come from different countries where they have different beliefs, are not content with having to honor the pledge. Unfortunately, they can not refuse because the teachers make them recite it.

The pledge of allegiance foreshadows the future in which the government will use national symbols, along with other figures, to promote their beliefs.We will live in a society where the people are manipulated and brainwashed by the simple tricks performed by the government.