The Maze Runner Series question

***SPOILERS AHEAD: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ ALL THREE BOOKS AND DON’T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS, READ NO FURTHER***

Final Thoughts:

- Is this supposed to be written in favour of the Darwinism “Survival of the Fittest” – so if you don’t happen to be genetically the fittest (aka: immune) you don’t deserve to live, so screw you guys and your cure.
- While I don’t disagree that I’ve met my fair share of teenagers who are self-serving buggers… it’s been recently theorized that there isn’t a huge definite “once you’re a teen, you’re an arse” hormone mix that pumps into your system… so how did this weeding process manage to only get the most uncooperative, selfish bunch of teenagers for their all-important study?
- If the best and the brightest are this stupid and immature… is the premise supposed to paint a picture of a world where the pickin’s on intelligence is THAT SLIM… that this is really the best they could get?
- If the organization WICKED is so advanced and is able to provide selective memories/thoughts… why would they not have left in the part about compassion and drive to SAVE THE HUMAN RACE? Unless it was never there to begin with… in which case, wow… they are awfully stupid for allowing a bunch of selfish neophytes be the crux and be-all-end-all of this extremely important cure
- My view and opinion could/would be different if the epilogue/internal memos included in the books indicated that WICKED was lying about the blueprint… that there really was no cure… but it’s just maddening knowing that there really is one… and these selfish little pricks are quite strenuously trying to make it NOT happen.
- Is the premise also implying that Biological warfare programs are so poorly designed that a bioweapon is conceived, grown, cloned, weaponized… and an inoculation and/or cure wasn’t concurrently or pre-emptively made? I would hate to think that the scientists in charge of such a program would be that short-sighted – especially if they’re planning to make this bloody thing airborne… we kinda all breathe the same air – and as far as I know… we don’t control the weather.
- Strong feeling that the ending internal memo stating “Well, blueprint failed, we’re all screwed, the immunes are going to restart the earth’s population” – was a bit of a “there there” to the readers so we could all say “Phew!! Well, good thing Thomas was such a brat about the whole thing… it wasn’t going to work ANYhow!” – but wait… he didn’t know that. As far as what HE knew… he could have been the key to the survival of another bubonic-plague/smallpox. Or … what about… what if the ONLY reason the blueprint failed is because Thomas *didn’t* give up his brain? What if Chancellor Paige’s “We have more than enough data” statement was spurred by sympathy for a boy rather than true empirical fact? I think many of us know, as much as we hate to admit… for something as precise and wildly particular as an inoculation towards something never seen, something SO alien… sometimes physical exploration really is the only way to get the materials required.

The message I take away from these novels is that: Teenagers are selfish stupid jerks and if it comes to a point where we need them to help out the human race… 99% of us will die horrible deaths – unless we hunt out these teenagers and endear ourselves to them – thus making at least US as individuals relevant. The governments of the world are a short-sighted bunch who will make an incurable disease, spread it around for “population control” and not give a second thought to a cure/inoculation/vaccine until they’re forced to test on human subjects. Awesome.