2005-08-04
Question of the Week End
A spiritual guider I know told me that there was a shift in the universe whereby it will become 10 times harder to do good on earth and 10 times easier for the forces of bad will. Which led me to think whether the future of the human species will be close to the world depcited in Mad Max or one governed by pristine and utopian ideals seen in some Star Trek episodes. Things are so contradictory that I'm not sure. As a self-professed optimist my gut tells me Mad Max.
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Wry.
ReplyDeleteAs you've implied, it seems that every "utopian" society on Star Trek has at least one fatal flaw to which the viewer is immediatly privvy, and with which the cast must come to terms.
Or for Kirk, blow'em the F up. He's good at that.
While the Mad Maxx series is quite localized (for all the highway running that they do...), it seems to show a basic humanity. There are always roving bands of "evil" (and we can call them barbarians, or pirates, or dissidents..). Much of the language described to "evil" is cultral, and seldomly universal.
That being said, at least in the case of the choices given, evil will always be. But it usually exists outside of regular human society. Whatever form that society has taken. But I guess that that is redundant. Society depends on some understanding of the golden rule.
So. As a social being we (humans) will always lean toward civility, although there will always be sometimes quite powerful forces outside.