Human nature

Um, but our...

What did she say? Our human nature's so faulty?

Yeah.

Human nature is so faulty, right? We're so warped-

Yeah

... that, that we don't-

Grace.

Okay.

This is Kay Resnick with Make Me Believe.

This song is called Make Me Believe, and it's about renewing faith in human nature.

Now you're a fine-looking man With a talent for persuasion With a strong, warm hand You used so well upon occasion But I have seen enough reality To shake faith in humanity A faith a few good soldiers might renew We'll start with you Make me believe That people care That living in this world's a gift and not some cosmic double dare I want to go to sleep each night and long for one day more Make me believe in the company Outside my front door Make me believe indignity that what I'm doing under you is what you're doing under me that we can walk this world and it won't shatter from our weight make me believe we're all God's children not some plaguey sin of late Well, you don't have to be the face of the whole human race Just a spark to convince me there's a flame Turn off the evening news, it just confirms my dark abuse I want to walk alongside courage Oh, and call it by a name Make me believe That we can roll, be it the payers forward, not the takers of the toll.

I'm on the journey to hereafter, not enamored with the drive.

Exactly, which raises perhaps the most profound question the book accidentally asks.

Does The Maze Runner secretly suggest that human nature, when stripped down to its absolute core, is inherently good and cooperative?

Oh, wow.

If amnesiac teenagers naturally instinctively build a supportive community when left to their own devices, does that mean the real dystopia isn't the physical maze?