Extraordinary

Source: 1x.com

I found this trailer for a movie called "2081."
Look at it here: finallyequal.com

Apparently it's like a dystopia where everyone is equal and no one is extraordinary. Beautiful people are required to wear masks. Intelligent people wear things that keep certain parts of their brain from functioning. Strong people have to wear weights.

Things like that. I really like dystopia movies and stories for some reason, like Minority Report, Pleasantville, 1984 and Brave New World kind of things.

I'm interested to see how this movie plays out and what happens in the end. Then I wondered how this world would play out if it actually happened. All racial comments aside. How could you grow up in a world where everyone is equal? A world where no one is prettier than you, no one is smarter than you, no one is stronger than you. Would that make things better?

Because it seems like a lot of time we are comparing ourselves to others. That girl is way prettier than me. That guy is going to Stanford, he's way smarter than me. They were lifting 200 pound weights, they are definitely stronger than me. Mind you these are all not material things. So don't bring in nice cars or nice houses or anything into your thoughts about this. I'm mostly thinking of physical things.

How would the government even define what is extraordinary? A certain IQ? A certain amount of weight that everyone can lift easily? How would they define who is pretty and who isn't? It's completely in the eye of the beholder.

If these were enforced would the concept of beauty, intelligence and strength die out completely? And if they did die out completely, how would anyone know that someone is too beautiful or too smart? It's like good and evil. One can't exist without the other because we cannot know what's good until we know what is evil.

I had to write a paper about self-consciousness and whether it was beneficial or detrimental to society. I couldn't put my own opinion into it however, because I had to talk about it through the eyes of Rousseau and Nietzsche. But in any case, I can't really say if I think self-consciousness is good or bad for society.

It's good in that it makes us always strive for something better, but it's bad in that people can easily become consumed in wanting to be better thus thinking something is wrong with themselves. I'm simply not sure. I've just come to the conclusion that there's always going to be someone better than me no matter what I do, but the difference is not letting it get to me and I try not to. Some of the times it doesn't and sometimes it does, but it keeps things interesting you know?

Wow you must be really devoted to read 2 extremely long posts of mine...because I don't even know if they make sense after a while. But thanks for reading anyway, I really appreciate it.



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