The Wasteland: The Extremes of Halla

*Spoiler Alert* (First off, I'm sorry for those who have never read the Pendragon series because some of this will sound like it’s totally off in left field to you)
I absolutely love it when some I’m reading for school ties in with something I’m reading for fun. Yesterday we were talking about how Eliot’s “The Wasteland” depicts a loss of structure and how each section seems to solve a problem in the section before by turning to the extreme opposite of what causes the issues. Unfortunately, what fixes the problem in the previous section brings doom in the next. I believe someone threw out the phrase, “Turning to the east when the west doesn‘t work.” That discussion made me think of the book (really the entire series) that I’m reading right now, the Pendragon series. As with “The Wasteland”, in the Pendragon series we see that there are both good and bad results from turning to extremes for solving a problem.
The case of the territory Veelox, it was a territory overwhelmed by technology. The world was dying because people refused to tear themselves away from the technology. Once it was clear there was no help for the territory, a group of phaders and vedders decided the only course of action was to start a new society reliant on absolutely no technology at all. For the world of Veelox, extremes worked well. The phaders and vedders for a colony on the island of Ibara and while the rest of their world crumbled and died, Ibara remained a peacefully simple island paradise.
On the other hand, extremes also prove to be a bad thing. The bad guy of the series, Saint Dane, has this grand solution for all mankind. He plans to rid the universe of all those beings who are complacent and people who are not exceptionally excellent - in other words, drains and normal people - by rewarding only those people he deems “worthy” of surviving. His plan of totally wiping out the people he calls the source of the universe’s problems ultimately brings the destruction of each world. The future of our territory, Third Earth is completely in shambles along with every other territory in Halla. Of course, the destruction of Halla was Saint Danes ulterior motive from the get-go, but that’s not the point. Like the use of water to solve a drought in “The Wasteland” only for the water to then cause death by drowning, Saint Dane’s plan ironically turns the territories into wastelands of their own.

P.S.: for those of u who haven't read Pendragon, i REALLY recommend that you read it.
P.P.S.: I commented on "Lack of Structure"