Blog #5

In Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator speech, I think the main theme is revolved around humanity.  Somewhere along the way of new advances in the world, we have lost the thing that makes us human.  I do not think that technology should take full responsibility as to why this has happened.  From 1939-1945, our world endured a lot of hardship.  Many countries were controlled by evil dictators that sought out to control what people should think and look upon the world as.  They made their minds dependent on the dictator's thoughts and ideas.  It caused them to be more like robots and the dictator was holding the remote, in this case.  Technology has also held a strong grasp on the human mind as well.  Machines are made to think for themselves to make our lives easier, but in fact, it is causing us to be so dependent on them that pretty soon we're going to be looking up on our tablets, "what is humanity?"  It is making us less social and friendly to the point where we cannot shake a hand to greet someone you just met.  I think that this was the point to Chaplin's speech.  We should be trying to be our own person instead of letting other things take hold of our humanity.