I agree it’s trash. But I do recall later books expanding on it.
Basically, the four personalities came up because of deliberate genetic engineering. Humans discovered how to alter genes and went nuts with it. They began programming smart people for academia, brave people for the military, honest people to be politicians… etc.
…And this completely fucked up human’s gene pool over time.
And so the setting of the story is actually an elaborate social experiment to try and heal humanity’s genetic health.
It’s discovered later that there are actually a shitton tons of “Divergents”. The protagonist was not even close to being the only one. But they were told to keep it secret because of…reasons that I don’t remember.
So yeah. There’s… a theme in there somewhere? I think? Maybe? Almost? That we humans should be careful playing with genetics? Or something?
Yeah. It still sucks, but it’s not AS stupid the premise initially suggests.
I agree it’s trash. But I do recall later books expanding on it.
Basically, the four personalities came up because of deliberate genetic engineering. Humans discovered how to alter genes and went nuts with it. They began programming smart people for academia, brave people for the military, honest people to be politicians… etc.
…And this completely fucked up human’s gene pool over time.
And so the setting of the story is actually an elaborate social experiment to try and heal humanity’s genetic health.
It’s discovered later that there are actually a shitton tons of “Divergents”. The protagonist was not even close to being the only one. But they were told to keep it secret because of…reasons that I don’t remember.
So yeah. There’s… a theme in there somewhere? I think? Maybe? Almost? That we humans should be careful playing with genetics? Or something?
Yeah. It still sucks, but it’s not AS stupid the premise initially suggests.