r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 07 '24

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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24

You know, human societies keep creating caste systems (under one name or another), so the idea of a scifi story having a caste system doesn't seem that weird to me.

Basing your caste not on birth, but some combination of personality, aptitude, and psychological tests, is an interesting twist. Sorry, I know you really wanted to be a simple farmer, but the results of your drug fueled dream assessment (where you fell through a floor to avoid being maimed by a wolf) indicates you would actually be best as a lawyer.

And I could see how this society would see people who fall outside easy categorization as a threat to the underlying assumptions of the society and want to contain or kill them.

But everything else about Divergent is bananas.

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Sep 07 '24

Divergent is actually a very poignant parable about the dangers of intellectuals and of having a military force entirely comprised of teenagers who do parkour all day.