Blindness Message

Throughout the novel I always had this thought in the back of my mind as to why the author made the book, and why there was a movie adaptation of it. If we take a couple things into account, this might make more sense to whomever reads this. First, we have the government who is the leaders of this quartine. next we have the guards who seem to have not been affected by this blindness. If we take a step back and look at this whole thing as a bigger picture... it almost seems to me that we as a society are messing up our planet, and some higher power above us is making us blind, just to make us aware that we are blinded from our own mess that we have created. I'm not sure if that is the message that is intended, but it does seem to me that it could be a message.