We'd be like those on the planet of Camazotz from L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time - our very breath governed, while "the burden of choice" has been lifted. In this story - the kids resist IT, the governing brain that forces all into submission, painting it as an easier life. The one character, Meg, when setting out to challenge IT and rescue her father, is even given her faults as her gift.
How could faults be a gift?
I have to admit, the governing brain did sound a little appealing to me. I have to admit, I've been kind of expecting a perfect world. But, showing it in this extreme made a strong point in the picture of "perfection" (boys bouncing balls in rhythm, girls jumping rope, mother's calling their children in, men walking in sync) - there were no freedoms, no flexibility, no learning, no discovery, no suffering, no joy, no nothing - just an efficient machine.
Maybe I could make a fantastic story about our struggle now - it is like a siege here, from multiple directions. Is there good and evil here? Are we fighting for our survival? What exactly am I fighting against? Surely despair. But, I can't punch despair. So who or what is our enemy?
I wonder how all my faults could ever be used for good...
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