Which doesn’t get addressed at all, really, by which I mean there is this creepy feel of the resistance all taking the drug together at the behest of the leadership without even knowing what effects the drug will have. But why the need for a drug? There’s a moment when they all take this drug together that is reminiscent of Jim Jones and Jamestown: One teacher gives her an influential (but undescribed) fictional book, Kick the Boot, for the resistant underground, a group of oddballs she thereupon joins, who want to have their govrernment-implanted hyper-chips removed, and who want to take this drug that will slow them down, Decelerate Blue. Get in, get out, hyper! Zowie! Whew.)ĭecelerate Blue is a YA text, focused on a girl who (for some unnamed reasons) does not want to GO fast and Be Hyper, which is what society wants, what her parents want and want for her. (I recall a “super” market nearby that decided to change to “hyper” market as a descriptor. So we can all get behind the idea of this book, I hope. The idea is to ramp down resource usage, Get Simple. And we all experience this acceleration, this hyper-spatial existence. It’s a sci-fi comics book, a one-volume graphic novel, focused on what is for me a necessity for human survival on the planet, the slow growth movement-slow eating, slow relationships, slow economy, the slow reading of actual good and great books (as opposed to Reader’s Digest versions of books, or even some superficial comic book versions of great books).
“Slow down, you move too fast, you gotta make the morning last.”-Simon and Garfunkelĭecelerate Blue has some interesting dimensions. I had a great time reading and I love the ending. There isn't much middle ground, it's only the opposite or reaction against.Īngela finds love down there and friends and she feels like she belongs. The hyper world demands you use contractions all the time and the Underground demands you can't use contractions. It is the extreme opposite of the other world. This is one of the problems, but the Underground is cool. Now the entrance into this underground is pretty stupid and doesn't really fit well in the story. To brutalize Shakespeare in this way, it's simply makes me cringe.Īngela hates this world and she is out with the trees when she is pulled into the Earth by someone. but those who appreciate the succinct speed of the vernacular will find it to be more suited for todays world." that the cleansing of the text flattens the dance of the poetry. " Now, an Old World purist might argue that the language has been somehow compromised. In the New World, more efficient version, Juliet says What if the FRiar is trying to poison me?" It continues. "the old World version reads: What if it be a poison, which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead. Everything has been rewritten to be quick and most stories are now 12-15 minutes long. I love the scene in English class when the teacher is discussing Romeo and Juliet. It's extreme and they call it hyper which was annoying too. In this world, you talk quickly and keep super busy, go go go.
Our pain character, Angela just wants to slow down and be able to think.
I know there is an exaggerated element to this aspect of our society, but it was fun to see it to this extreme conclusion. Our culture gets faster paced and faster paced. Luckily, once the story gets going, our new characters drop that annoyance, but it comes back at the end. I started out reading this and I couldn't figure out why they ended each sentence with Go.
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