Another aspect of life through technology is that opinions aren’t expressed in person. There is no way to know what people are really thinking and get the bigger picture, so everything is over analyzed. An example of this is when Mae gets 368 frowns on a question asking how awesome she is. She reads into the situation and makes the frowns out to be something more than they are when she says, “Now I have to walk around campus not knowing who wants me dead”(417). Mae’s justification of people wanting this is based upon a few frowns directed towards her that she has no capability of knowing the reasoning behind. Another normality at the Circle is a lack of communication skills because they are never necessary. Technology is so natural to Circlers that they don’t realize how they are almost always truly alone and are only involved with others through technology. Another normality in the Circle is the constant push for a perfectly run society, with no crime or accidents. There need for being completely safe causes them to not realize how they are willingly giving the Circle total power over them. The majority of society believes the Circle’s ideals are perfect so they don’t even think to question any of the Circle’s
Another aspect of life through technology is that opinions aren’t expressed in person. There is no way to know what people are really thinking and get the bigger picture, so everything is over analyzed. An example of this is when Mae gets 368 frowns on a question asking how awesome she is. She reads into the situation and makes the frowns out to be something more than they are when she says, “Now I have to walk around campus not knowing who wants me dead”(417). Mae’s justification of people wanting this is based upon a few frowns directed towards her that she has no capability of knowing the reasoning behind. Another normality at the Circle is a lack of communication skills because they are never necessary. Technology is so natural to Circlers that they don’t realize how they are almost always truly alone and are only involved with others through technology. Another normality in the Circle is the constant push for a perfectly run society, with no crime or accidents. There need for being completely safe causes them to not realize how they are willingly giving the Circle total power over them. The majority of society believes the Circle’s ideals are perfect so they don’t even think to question any of the Circle’s