Panopticisim

By: John Rosini Civilizations by their very nature depend upon the acceptance of certain principals. In general terms, the people govern themselves according to laws. Laws are, of course, made by the government to designate for the for the whole of society. However, there is little fact that people don't, as a whole, do things for the greater good of society: merely for their own personal gain. Knowledge and power go hand in hand, but …

…this much about humans because soon we will have dissected ourselves so much to a point where nothing else is left to learn? Panoptic societies are very orderly, efficient, economically sustainable, but in exchange, also inhumanly cruel and oppressive.. However, Foucault does not advocate this quasi-utopian world, his fact-spewing is instead to make the reader connect the modern prisons, factories, schools, barracks, and hospitals; not to the physical Panopticon, but instead our society to Panopticism.