One part in the beginning the family is discussing a boy who had gotten mauled in a chip reader machine because he messed with the chip in his arm that provides him with his Guarantee. The parts that really sunk into me during the story were the scenes that hit too close to home. Can they free the rest of the world before the powers that be shut down their utopian experiment? In their secret underground hideout, they create a life unplugged from the rapid-fire culture outside. But the truth is she’s not alone.Īngela finds herself recruited into a resistance movement where the key to rebellion is taking things slow. Angela thinks she’s the only person in her family―maybe the only person on the planet―who sees anything wrong with this picture. In this new world, speed and efficiency are everything, and the populace zooms along in a perpetually stimulated haze. So much so, that the very words I am writing on this page would have me arrested for taking up too much of your time. We are won over by our need of consumption, our lack of patience and our need for efficiency. A world where the consumption of things that stimulate our brains become the new normal. Now imagine if that not only seemed a little boring, but it was essentially illegal.ĭECELERATE BLUE is a window into a possible world where this non-thinking may take us. I’m talking about just thinking, slow thoughts, about life. And not thinking about bills or what you have to do that day not the run down of tasks that you haven’t completed or phone calls you have to make not what someone may have said on Facebook, what people may think of what you said on Facebook or what you might say on there but you hadn’t gotten around to that yet. Just the silence of the world around you and yourself for company. When there is no one around and you are mentally free, when is the last time you chose to just think? No music, no text messaging, no phone calls, videos, shows, or books. Or as DECELERATE BLUE would say: We need to have our go, go, goes. Our brains are becoming addicted to the sensation that consumption of technology provides it. The fact that we would actually harm ourselves for stimulation rather than be bored for any amount of time may seem crazy to you, but it’s true. This was scientifically explained by V Sauce’s Michael Stevens in Mindfield. In these times that I am alone with only my brain for company, I tend to choose not thinking. Many times I do this while I’m cleaning or stepping outside multi-tasking is good right. Sometimes I listen to music or watch something while washing dishes or cooking if I’m alone. How I watch shows or read books while I’m knitting, or knit while watching television with my husband. Little things that I never thought to think about. Of course I thought! Who doesn’t think? But… over time I noticed changes to my behavior that hadn’t been there when I was young. At first I was very confused and agitated by this idea. My husband has always told me that people don’t think anymore. However I would purchase this story in a heartbeat.~ ~I received a copy of this book for review.
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