Blog Post Group E

I agree that this story is definitely intense. No one really has control of his or her own emotions or feelings. All human rights are stripped away because people aren't allowed to make their own choices--they just do whatever they were injected with makes them do. In a lot of dystopian stories I have read, love is what drives people to fight against the system, but in "Just Do It," that isn't even a possibility because love is just another fabricated feeling. Nothing is genuine. People aren't allowed to be themselves, so how can they have the motivation to change anything? I was also really disturbed by the last image the story left us with--of Alex shooting her son with an injection to make him get out of bed. At the beginning of the story, people are just being injected with things to make them crave food and other products, but now they are being injected with things that can pretty much control how people act completely. Having a mother shot her child with anything just seems crazy to me, and I feel that they really shows how far from sane the world has become in "Just Do It."