A village, surrounded by monsters.

 

Did you ever see M. Night Shyamalan's movie “The Village”? That is the story of the village. These people believed. The monstrous creatures surrounded it. In the final part of the movie. The main character realizes that the “monster” was a scarecrow. The fact is that the village has been isolated for maybe hundreds of years. Because. Villagers didn’t have any contact. To the outside world, they thought that the car engine sound was the monster’s roar. 

This thing introduces a situation. That. The limited information allows people to do. That thing is one of the key elements in societies that are under totalitarian control. The Village from that movie exists. The macro version of that village. Are Russia and North Korea, where the controller tells people that they are surrounded by hostile characters, who. Want to destroy their paradise. So those people must stand strong in command. The micro version of those villages is in the sects. Those leaders say that people laugh. To the real believers. And that means, they use similar methods. That keeps the fictional village under control. 

The fact is that M. Night Shyamalan didn’t create that isolated society. Those isolated societies existed long before M. Night Shyamalan was even born. Medieval castles and monasteries were also isolated. In medieval cities, people believed that the forests around their city walls. Were. Full of monsters. Those stories were told so that people would not escape. The thing that separated medieval monks from other people was that they spoke Latin. With each other. Another thing was that people almost never visit castles. That thing is guaranteed. That medieval noblemen would stay loyal to the king. There was no ability to grow food in most of the castles. That made it possible to control those castles in the case that the lord of the castle refuses to follow orders. 

The internet is full of stories about how bad the smell was in those castles. The fact is that. The people who lived and worked in the castle were used to that smell, which formed when spices were burned in the fire. The purpose of that smell. Was. To keep outsiders away from those places. And that was one of the things that isolated those people. The medieval segregation. It is one of the things. That can reflect on modern days. We can say that maybe all of us live in M. Night Shyamalan’s village. Rich people hire security guards because they are afraid that some gangs rob their homes. Medieval lords of the castle believed similar things. That’s why those people had soldiers and cannons to protect them. 

We can believe that we cannot go to that isolated village. We have internet, cell phones, and many other things. But. The fact is that the information that we get. And. How. Do. We get. That information. Determines. Do we believe it? Or not. It’s possible. That somebody stuns us. When we visit the shop. Then that person keeps us in a narcosis for a while. After we wake up, our host tells us that. The Earth is badly polluted, and then orders us to check the data. From the net. The host uses the fake information to confess that this person is not a liar. In that case, we have no choice but to check that information. And do we dare to test things that person tells us?

 Do we dare to start traveling to the nearest village? Especially if we were in the middle of the icy stream. That person can take us to the Alps. Or somewhere. Where we just cannot see other houses. That person can tell stories that. We are in the middle of Antarctica. There is a possibility. That prisoners are in regular houses. And all the information that prisoners get. Comes from the screens that are in the windows. This is the idea of North Korea. People get only the information that they are allowed to get.