Sunday, January 13, 2013

Blind Organization


            The part of the book that I want to talk about is when the group of blind men took control over the food supply and basically the rest of the institute as a result. Although this group did some pretty terrible things, and cause the rest of institute to go into mayhem because of it, they also did some pretty good things as well. While the food deliveries stopped coming to the institute, the group was able to stretch out the supplies. Also, earlier in the book, the supplies were not distributed fairly; some ate more than their share while some did not have anything to eat at all. When the group took over, everyone got the same amount of supplies and no one was left out. So even though the group did some pretty terrible things, they also helped out the institute.
            Now, while this real world example may shock basically everyone, just hear me out on this one. The Nazi party also did some extremely terrible things, but they also did benefit the world in some ways. I don’t really need to go into detail about the bad things that they did, everyone knows about those. One thing that they did that was positive though was German engineering. So much of the world around us would not be possible without the engineering advancements that were created by the Germans. Another thing is that the Nazis had a pretty decent plan for the world in terms of dividing up the work fairly amongst everyone, a representative counsel for the world, and plenty of other things. The problem with the Nazi party was how they went about achieving this vision, by creating a world war and the holocaust, as well as that the vision only involved a “master race” instead of everybody.

2 comments:

  1. I never really thought of the benefits that these horrible people brought, but I guess that makes the entire situation even more dystopian. Very interesting topic, I like how you brought it up.

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  2. You bring up a good point. While the good can in no way outweigh the bad, it's interesting that you point out the fact that there's a flip side to every coin.

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