Post by Lightfighter on Feb 2, 2011 13:04:15 GMT -5
Ok,
This thought has occured to me on more than one occasion. If an entire population suddenly and immediately went cold turkey on something as vital to their entire society as Prozium, then what?
Addicts of all kinds go through drastic, sometimes violent changes, when their drug of choice is removed from them. We saw how Preston reacted when off of his dose for just one day. He was confused and scared, to say the least. The one thing he really had going for him was the fact that he was mentally trained to handle stress. So he didn't completely loose his mind right away. However, we have seen throughout history that not all poeple are the same and will react differently. What about all the poeple who would be unable to cope with their new highs and lows of emotion? What becomes the next addiction? Do we see the rise of pleasure palaces? Do we see the excess in all things that brought down the Roman Empire? Mass suicides? Mass murders? Genocide? Yes, we hear Jurgen say that human nature will take over, but how many generations has humanity been suppressing their emotions? How would the emotions be controlled in new born children? One of the things that has allowed the human species to survive has been the fight or flight instinct. If you chemically supress that for a while, especially at the level when a fetus is developing in the womb, how many generations would it take to chemically alter human DNA?
We see in the movie that there a literally hundreds of resistance fighters. I guess we can assume that Libria and Prozium use has been widespread for only a generation or so. But we can only assume so much. Besides, assumption is the mother of all fuck ups, pardon my French. Given human nature, we can very safely say that there will be at least some of the population that will be reluctant to change, no matter how good it may seem. Again, many of the people will reactly violently once the chemical of choice has been removed. Given that, how long will if be before someone else comes along and tries something similar again? As noble and heroic as Preston and the resistance were, who is to say that the seeds of the next world war have not been sewn? The war that human kind was destined to not survive?
Now, was the 'utopian' society of Libria the best thing? For some, I'm sure it was. But as we can see, the Vice Counseler himself was a dyed in the wool hypocrite. You can plainly see that he was 'feeling' on at least two occasions. Like they say in the DVD Special Features', anytime you have something utopian, something on the inside is rotten and evil. But, as Jurgen also states, 'The first thing you learn about emotion is that it has it's price. A complete paradox. Emotion is chaos.' So what would untimately be the price? Would human kind erase itself in an orgy of emotionally uncontrollable violence? I cannot help but wonder.
This thought has occured to me on more than one occasion. If an entire population suddenly and immediately went cold turkey on something as vital to their entire society as Prozium, then what?
Addicts of all kinds go through drastic, sometimes violent changes, when their drug of choice is removed from them. We saw how Preston reacted when off of his dose for just one day. He was confused and scared, to say the least. The one thing he really had going for him was the fact that he was mentally trained to handle stress. So he didn't completely loose his mind right away. However, we have seen throughout history that not all poeple are the same and will react differently. What about all the poeple who would be unable to cope with their new highs and lows of emotion? What becomes the next addiction? Do we see the rise of pleasure palaces? Do we see the excess in all things that brought down the Roman Empire? Mass suicides? Mass murders? Genocide? Yes, we hear Jurgen say that human nature will take over, but how many generations has humanity been suppressing their emotions? How would the emotions be controlled in new born children? One of the things that has allowed the human species to survive has been the fight or flight instinct. If you chemically supress that for a while, especially at the level when a fetus is developing in the womb, how many generations would it take to chemically alter human DNA?
We see in the movie that there a literally hundreds of resistance fighters. I guess we can assume that Libria and Prozium use has been widespread for only a generation or so. But we can only assume so much. Besides, assumption is the mother of all fuck ups, pardon my French. Given human nature, we can very safely say that there will be at least some of the population that will be reluctant to change, no matter how good it may seem. Again, many of the people will reactly violently once the chemical of choice has been removed. Given that, how long will if be before someone else comes along and tries something similar again? As noble and heroic as Preston and the resistance were, who is to say that the seeds of the next world war have not been sewn? The war that human kind was destined to not survive?
Now, was the 'utopian' society of Libria the best thing? For some, I'm sure it was. But as we can see, the Vice Counseler himself was a dyed in the wool hypocrite. You can plainly see that he was 'feeling' on at least two occasions. Like they say in the DVD Special Features', anytime you have something utopian, something on the inside is rotten and evil. But, as Jurgen also states, 'The first thing you learn about emotion is that it has it's price. A complete paradox. Emotion is chaos.' So what would untimately be the price? Would human kind erase itself in an orgy of emotionally uncontrollable violence? I cannot help but wonder.