Review: What Happens to a World Where Everyone is Crowdedly Eequal?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2012
Welcome to a world where all your needs are not only met, but have been analyzed to the nth degree to assure that you get no more than your fair share. Equal housing, equal medical care, equal education, equal jobs (where appitude is the only consideration to set your life course), equal (synthetic) food, equal pay and if all this "equalness" gets to be a bit too much, there's an equal allotment of little pillls called yellowjackets to, well, bring back your equillibrium.Ah, you may ask, how is all this "equalness" maintained? By the government, my friend, you now live in a nanny state, where all the information you need is scripted and beamed over telescreens. Forget, books, magazines and newspapers. All gone. Forget asking your neighbor, you probably don't know them and if you do, they only have access to the same information as you. Forget travel, the roads are overcrowded, speed limit is regulated to 15 miles an hour and what makes you think you qualify for a car to begin with?The only thing not regulated (it seems) is the right to breath in and out (but the air quality is questionable) and reproduction. Reproduction is still viewed as a given right and that the human instint to recreate is too strong for any restrictive measure to be affective.Therefore the world has become overpopulated. No disease or war, combined with an ever lenghtening lifespan, has everthing bursting at the seams. What's a man to do in this crush of humanity, where every footfall is measured and every turn brings you in contact with more and more people? Join Harry Collins as he goes sideways in This Crowded Earth. Highly recommend.