Blog entry 3 The Specials

"Later, the others were going to head out on their hover-boards and scan the wild. The smokies couldn't remove Faustos's skintenna without killing him, so his signal would read from a kilometer or so away. But mere kilometers meant nothing in the wild, Tally knew. On her way to the Smoke, she'd traveled at hoverbaord speeds for days without encountering any sign of humanitym had seen whole cities submerged in desert sands and jungle. If the Smokies wanted to disappear the natural world was more than big enough." (64)

Wow, so the almost have a radio attatched to them biologically. How can you put a tracker/radio in someone to the point that if they remove it they can die? That is why this is a dystopian society because they think that all this biotechnology is great when in fact that its really harmful and playing to much as the hand of God. I think that the specials also abuse biotechnology creating an even further dystopian society. This future society is to much, they rely soley on biotechnology to solve all thier problems. If someone stands up to the government they just capture then and do a surgical process where they make lesions in thier brain in order to change the way they think. To create this "bubbly" person who has no way of thinking but materialistically and having fun. Nothign else is really important to them. The government does this so they can have complete control of the citizens and be able to project this image that thier society is perfect when in reality its not. Though the specials are not even able to reverse this perfectly. There is medicine to help but it can also turn you crazy or just ruin your brain. That is what happened to Tallys boyfriend, I wonder if she still thinks about him and how she feels guilty about it... Though even the speicals are unable to control this it takes forever for them to remove the "bubbly" feeling. Though now they are fighting with the rusties when I feel like they should be trying to take down the government and scientest that controll the pretties.