Blog 4

For this blog, I watched the first episode of the Dollhouse series.  This episode showed the motivations and incentives behind human actions.  In this series, people hire “dolls” to perform tasks that they need completed.  These dolls have had their memories cleared and are programmed to complete any task that a customer might need.  In this episode, a doll named Echo is programmed to spend time with a man and is later programmed to handle a hostage situation.

“No one has everything they want.  You get what you want, you want something else.”   This is a quote from the agent who is investigating the Dollhouse and is trying to find clues of its existence.  This quote is his justification for his actions and the reason he thinks the Dollhouse is real.  People always want more, even those who seem to have everything.  I believe this is one of the basic concepts of our culture and an important principle in economics.  People are never satisfied and there is always something else they want or need.  This business is able to offer people the opportunity to have almost anything they could ever want.  But I think it is interesting to think about the people who volunteered to be the dolls.  These people gave up their bodies and you do not know why these people chose to be there.  It will be interesting to see if the show goes on to explain how the Dollhouse chooses people to have their memories erased and what is the history behind it.  I believe that these people need some kind of incentive to become one of the “dolls” for the Dollhouse.  It could be an attempt to erase their past or an effort to try to forget something they have done.