silverlulu wrote:forgive my immaturity but whether or not both films are 100% accurate, and whether or not utopia is where we wanna go...
the government and corporations are enslaving us and screwing the world over for profit right? are they planning one world government? total control of us? are they deliberately destroying 3rd world countries to keep them as slaves? is this 1984 style true?
it just seems that we argue over the points which divide us rather than unify on the bigger picture.
The thing to realise is :
"the government", "them", "the man", "the evil secret cabal", etc.
they are all us, people , humans. We as humans are one organism, they as dominators are like the eyeball, or the toenail.
Humans as part of the collective organism start to take on certain seemingly required roles within that organism. When you hate on "the man" for his oppressive ways you must realise you are hating on "humanity" - the particular person you hate has simply morphed into a required role. You can argue that the role of oppressor is not required, but the truth is we do not get a say on our group genetics. As a race and as individuals we have many latent facets waiting to spring to life - we are pre-programmed to mutate in certain situations.
The hippy munching on a raw organic carrot can be transformed into a greedy oppressive power broker simply by being transported into that slot of our collective organism.
Doubt that this could happen? It has been proven time and time again as people morph into oppressors simply by being put in the position to abuse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
Many of our worst politicians actually started out as idealists who strove to break the system / the man / etc. But when they got to that position, they fullfilled the exact same specified role asthe people they ousted.
we are humans, this is what we are.
You , me , them, us, none are without "blame".
perhaps it is necessary that we are like this.
