This week I left a comments on Enis's blog and Angel's blog.

I really enjoyed Angel's ideas about the motivations of the Brotherhood of Destruction, particularly the ideas that they had nothing to lose, and that oppression had driven them mad with rage leading to the widespread and indiscriminate violence.

I  also enjoyed Enis's ideas about the oligarchy being sociopaths because it touches on some of themes of social Darwinism we discussed in class. It led to my question of whether the sociopathic tendencies displayed by both the oligarchy and the Brotherhood were due to their race/ethnicity/not being blond haired and blue eyed, or were they learned behaviors. The oligarchy having been brought up to be cruel, and the Brotherhood being driven to cruelty due to oppression