We- Reaction to the Novel

The opposite yet exact same as Anthem. Interesting. Logically utopian yet technically far from it. No I am not just saying weird stuff. We had within it a mathematically superior theory of how to make the world a utopia. Technically, it really isn't a utopia, because nobody is really happy, they're just kept occupied. However, the idea of running a world like this, when you think about it, ensures the end of starvation, of hatred, of all the big problems everyone in the world likes to complain about. The only catch is that you need to become a computer program in order to fully enjoy it. Just for the record, if I were ever to be thrown into that world, I doubt I would be able to keep myself from smirking. The idea of everybody goosestepping, chewing, and perhaps even breathing in unison is just cartoonishly hilarious. Disturbing, but hilarious.

Now, if the world was like a computer, it would have no emotions and have no need for abstract concepts such as happiness or love. Being as it's not, though, and that human beings have a strange abnormality known as a soul, those abstract notions are quite necessary. In fact, we really can't do without them. They make us, shall I say, human. It's almost as if we humans are the only obstacle that needs to be overcome to have a utopian human society. That being said, I delcare utopian societies impossible. There cannot be happiness and happiness and some more happiness with absolutely no discontent whatsoever. You have to have at least an irritating itch in the center of your back in order to have even the slightest bit of contentment. As D-503 puts it, everyone believes that happiness is infinity in the positive direction; where is the negative of that? You can't just have a positive and pull it out of the air, or not have any of the opposite whatsoever. Both are needed. One could even go as far as to say, that without that negative to compare things to (or even a lesser positive, derived from adding a certain negative in question) one could not define happiness. Human beings have a soul that gives them preference and the ability to feel emotions, and therefore to be happy. However, by the same token they must deal with the unhappy as well. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, to take another logical route. The only way to eliminate sadness and discontent is to destroy the ability to sense that, to destroy both happy and sad. Light and darkness will always be there; if you don't like the darkness, or the light, close your eyes. Both will still be there, plain as day (or night), but if you really don't want to see one you should accept not being able to see the other. Either get over it or just stop existing. Nothing will be exactly as you demand it. Today's world is all about instant gratification. Well, things won't always go your way. Be grateful that you even have a way, that things even go at all. Be content with what you have, or be ready to give up everything for perfection. That's my take on it.

And for D-503's nemesis, the square root of negative one...if I were him, I'd just leave it as a lower case i. Problem solved. If you can't find the solution with numbers, use letters. That's why they're there, to be used. Make use of them, as with everything else in your life. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not a good thing. Find the good in everything. If there is a bad, then there must be a good somewhere in it, waiting to be found. There cannot be one without the other.