If films are any indication of what the future will look like, then we have more to fear than aliens and androids. Some more optimistic views of the future paint the picture of a beautiful utopia filled with flying cars and moving sidewalks. This is a skewed image and it gives us a false sense of reality. The bleak future doesn't offer any hope, it doesn't offer any promise. What it does offer, is a paranoid state of mind falling prey to the puppet masters who control the masses through fear and intimidation. Leading us to do things that are unimaginable.

Of course, the robots I speak of aren't the androids we've grown accustomed to.  No, I refer to the mindset of a person willing to let their government tell them how to feel, when to smile, and what to laugh at.  The social control that futuristic societies have allowed, and their refusal to do anything about it.  What is it that let's us become so passive?  Is it our fear?  What are we afraid of?  Ourselves?  Each other?  Does this fear come from within us or is it force fed to us through the media message?  Either way, there is a particular uncertainty that doesn't let us rest easy and forces us to allow our freedoms to be taken away.

“The Panopticon is a royal menagerie; the animal is replaced by man, individual distribution by specific grouping and the king by the machinery of a furtive power” (Foucault 203).  The dismemberment of society is categorized by the absolute surrender of power and control.  Subjugating the freedom of democracy, into a panic induced nightmare.