Fiction Blog #4

5. Describe and explain why you would/would not like to have lived in the time or place of the story.

       I definitely would NOT want to live in the future America that Titus lives in and I think it is pretty obvious why I wouldn't. Well the first thing is that all the people in this world sound and act stupid. It's as if the entire population of the United States became entirely made of clueless rich kids (I know not all rich people are dumb but you know what I mean) who are incredibly spoiled and have become the embodiment of instant gratification. They don't want to take responsibility about anything and don't think about the future. But the other reason I would not want to live in that time is because the world (or maybe just America?) is dying. The surface in unlivable, the ocean smells (apparently), whales need protective coating to live in the ocean, and I can only assume the o-zone is practically non-existent. I'm all for the progression of technology but not at the cost of the environment. I wonder why the other countries haven't already nuked the United States because it seems as though it was all their fault. But then that is an interesting question doesn't it? Why didn't they stop America? The book makes it seem like America is the only one to blame but really if the rest of the world really cared about the environment then they would have put a stop to them a long time ago. The U.S. can't be the only one that screwed up because there are plenty of first world countries on the planet that were probably almost as bad as they are. In this world it seems that the entire world stopped caring and when they realized what was going on they needed someone to blame. The U.S. is not innocent by any means but it seems as though they were not the only ones to blame.