More Ubiquitous Than We Thought

You know how after you learn a new word you start seeing it everywhere. Well it seems that this is true for themes too. I saw Toy Story 3 last Friday and near the end Barbie says something intelligent that was obviously meant to be funny because her character is supposed to be dumb. For those of you who took World History last year, AP or not, you may remember John Locke and The Social Contract. Well this is exactly what Barbie's lines come from. She says, "Authority should derive from the consent of the governed..." Well when I heard that I realized that this theme of the delicate relationship between people and their governments is more ubiquitous than I thought. It's Toy Story a kid's movie, and here it is making serious statements about society. Apparently this theme isn't solely confined to the distopia genre.

As I read more into the world of Brave New World, I hope to find more occurrences like this. Meaning, I hope that more themes of our summer reading worm their way into the rest of our lives. Already this has happened, for as Lenora stated in an earlier post she noticed the "Now... this" phenomenon that Postman brought to our attention. I too have criticized these horrible segways from depressing topics to ridiculous ones. So I hope this blog becomes sort-of-a list of funny little happenings in our lives where reality and literati collide. After all, something I learned in history followed me to English and then into the movies.