Jex
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I think it's pretty interesting that we've got two quite different shows that explicitly deal with the notion of society controlling and regulating individuals to an uncomfortable level.
In the near-future world of Psycho Pass some computer program reads your mind and decides for you what kind of life you're going to live and you have no say in the matter, you can't even rebel inside your own head because that's being monitored by the state.
In From the New World children are indoctrinated and moulded at an early age to conform to certain standards and those who are defective are permanently excised from society. I guess this is a lot closer to how our society actually works today.
Now, I don't know what it feels like to grow up in Japan and to strive to integrate into society but I guess that these works are actually trying to say something about what that actually feels like and the difficult pressures that puts on individuals. At least, that's what I imagine.
Interestingly there's another show that has a very similar concept to From the New World and that's the classic Terra e... which also deals with the idea about how a society of humans would cope with the introduction of a group of psychics. In fact, the world of Terra e... is also ruled by an all powerful system that decided your fate, much like Psycho Pass. I guess everyone has ripped off Terra e...!
In the near-future world of Psycho Pass some computer program reads your mind and decides for you what kind of life you're going to live and you have no say in the matter, you can't even rebel inside your own head because that's being monitored by the state.
In From the New World children are indoctrinated and moulded at an early age to conform to certain standards and those who are defective are permanently excised from society. I guess this is a lot closer to how our society actually works today.
Now, I don't know what it feels like to grow up in Japan and to strive to integrate into society but I guess that these works are actually trying to say something about what that actually feels like and the difficult pressures that puts on individuals. At least, that's what I imagine.
Interestingly there's another show that has a very similar concept to From the New World and that's the classic Terra e... which also deals with the idea about how a society of humans would cope with the introduction of a group of psychics. In fact, the world of Terra e... is also ruled by an all powerful system that decided your fate, much like Psycho Pass. I guess everyone has ripped off Terra e...!
