I feel like this is such a prevalent piece of a dystopian story because regular citizens feel like for the most part governments don't hear them.

Books/ stories sometimes can create a false sense of safety. Off top of my head I can think of one story we reference a lot, The Terminator, that we don't have a sense of comparative safety. As technology advances, humans fear technology turning against us because it would have all the knowledge to best us.

I agree with this because the dystopias that are depicted in movies today are an exaggerated outcome following certain decisions. These outcomes are the result of the people with power making decisions without everyone's input.

This is why people like patterns because its predictable and provides comfort, war and chaos disrupt predictability.

I agree with this because men make the same mistakes and decisions time and time again. Humans think they can always solve the problem or invent new ways to make things faster and easier, when sometimes we just can't. The phrase history repeats itself is a very good example here.

If it's simple and straight to the point, there is no reason to think about it in another way. Or to even spend time thinking about it because there is no need to understand.

Age ten is very young and it reminds me of the movie Jojo Rabbit. The movie takes place during the fall of Nazi Germany from the point of view of a 10 year old boy. He was in a junior group of the Hitler Youth. Controlled information fed to the young will usually result in blind loyalty.

If anything I would say that man has made prosthetic gods. technology and media for example. When I say technology I am talking about digital tech. This makes me think of the show American Gods.

I feel like we are not comfortable in civilization today because we are not present in our everyday lives. We are always trying to capture something so that it can be a life long memory, instead of actually enjoying the moment. Simplicity is the most natural way to live and sometimes adding things like technology can hinder rather than help.

The movie The High Rise, is a perfect example of how social groups are separated. A whole bunch of people live in a high rise apartment complex from and each floor is separated based on how much money you have. The better your job, education, and family ties, determines how high a floor your on.