Wow. How can New Mexico be number nine? I mean, the sun can hit like the nuclear fireball that it is, but it is so dry that your shirts don't even get wet! (All of my shirts instead get this crust of dry salt on the back, if I'm out a lot in the summer)
Even when warnings are understandable and explicit, they are still ignored. In an area of Japan, there are stones inscribed with warnings that a tsunami was able to reach the level of the stone markers. Future generations were warned not to build their houses below the level of the stones.
These warning stones were readable by even modern Japanese, and described a type of disaster that all Japanese are familiar with. And yet, in some places, residential buildings were placed too close to the water, with disastrous results during the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Radioactive cats and 'nuclear priesthoods' don't stand a chance.
10 k rats can kill anything and reduce it to bones. I never want them on the 'enemy' side of the equation. A guy with a gun and the ability to use it well can kill me before I know I'm under threat. I want him on my side, too. The rest of the animals are nothing.
This part, at least, seems to show that the dystopia makes use of 'exceptional' people by connecting their brains and vital organs to a machine (possibly as utility modules, reminiscent of "Mr. Spock and the Planet of Brain-stealing Bimbos"). The mother here describes her daughter as 'exceptional' many times, and wants her to be reassured that there are no monsters, and that the 'handymen' are to be trusted.
So the mother is cultivating her own daughter to be a utility module, and ensuring that, when the time comes for her to be harvested, she will not run away.
Those guys, on the other hand, must be on their way to one hell of a pub at the top of the hill.
In an area of Japan, there are stones inscribed with warnings that a tsunami was able to reach the level of the stone markers. Future generations were warned not to build their houses below the level of the stones.
These warning stones were readable by even modern Japanese, and described a type of disaster that all Japanese are familiar with. And yet, in some places, residential buildings were placed too close to the water, with disastrous results during the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Radioactive cats and 'nuclear priesthoods' don't stand a chance.
A guy with a gun and the ability to use it well can kill me before I know I'm under threat. I want him on my side, too.
The rest of the animals are nothing.
Australia is HUGE!
So the mother is cultivating her own daughter to be a utility module, and ensuring that, when the time comes for her to be harvested, she will not run away.