I was thinking a bit about Logan's Run
and had a few questions:
Why did they have to live in the bubble world when the "Sanctuary" seemed to exist outside?
Why were they forced to be "renewed" at age 30?
I have some speculations to the answers to these but am not sure at all. I think they choose to live in the bubble just to maintain better control over the population. Also they are free from weather hazards. They probably tell people it is dangerous outside to dissuade them from leaving which would weaken their society. They most likely are forced to be renewed as a sort of population control since it would seem like they have plenty of children. Therefore there is no older generation and they do not need to use resources to support it. I guess they are trading a short pleasureful and fun-filled life for a longer less party-like life. They have so much less responsibility in this system and don't even care who their children are or who they have sex with.
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I was just about to say what you already said in your blog! I also thought that they had to renew themselves at the age of thirty because they wanted to control their population. Im assuming that the bubble cannot expand so they needed some sort of way to control how many people could live in the bubble. They called it "renewing" because it would sound so much worse if they said that the people would be "killed off."
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