The Quest for order through chaos
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2024
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
Abstract
Humanity had come to several standoffs with extinction. The last of which are
World war I and World War II which alone are enough to portray humanity’s
capacity to cause its own extinction. With the technological leaps humanity made in the
last century, a fear is common among every citizen of every country on every
continent that the endless possibilities coming from the same technology used by
people to improve life could lead to our end. This research is a study of William
Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984); one of the dystopian novels that depict the state of
humanity under an oppressive regime that empowers itself through technology. In
order to prove that oppression and evil can only take root when humanity
stagnates, Neuromancer and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra are
placed in parallel which would allow for a better understanding of the nuances
that play part in eradicating the humane factor in society. Moreover, Carl Jung’s
psychology can determine the validity of the philosophical assumptions sprung up
by Nietzsche giving his abstract ideas a scientific basis. The significance of this research
lies in the importance of grasping the various factors that play a role in creating such
dystopias so that people may collectively avoid their recreation in reality as history
shows that negligence leads to unchecked power which in turn leads to tyranny and
tyranny leads to inhumane acts.