Yesterday M and I stole 2 hours and 40 minutes to watch the newest end-of-the-world disaster movie 2012
Since the movie 2012 takes its title from a myth about the end of days derived from a reading of the Mayan calendar, I assumed the plots would be around the Mayan legend and how human survive the cataclysm. I was half wrong and half right.
The movie does borrow some ideas from the Mayan legend, but not much is made of it. Like many apocalyptic movies, it is filled with frenetic action scenes, dazzling visual effects, dubious miracles, scatterbrained scripts, dysfunctional relationships, one-dimensional characters, “heavy handed attempts at emotion and morals” and of course, conspiracy theories.
But all of these were not what I thought about after watching the movie. My thought was: what we would do if some disasters, like the shifting of the plates, do happen in the future? What we would do to maintain humanity and protect civilization?
The survival plan presented by the movie involves building a fleet of arks to save the rich and powerful before our world ends. To get a seat, “you’d have to be Bill Gates or Rupert Murdoch or some Russian billionaire” or chief executives of governments. And the governments worldwide unite to keep a lid of secrecy on the coming of the doomsday and the existence of the “big ships”.
The ethical aspects of this survival plan are not brought into attention until the very end of this movie. And the debate goes blithely indifferent.
I want to ask: is it truly contributive to the mankind and civilization when only the rich and powerful are saved? Is it truly ethical for the governments to leave six or seven billion people to die with no other choices while at the same build secret ships for themselves with taxpayers’ money?
No, of course not.
I want to know: is there any other survival plan to save as many people as possible, rather than only the extreme rich and extreme powerful? Should people have the right to know and to decide what to do with their lives?
Yes, definitely.
Here are my solutions.
First of all, instead of keeping the information underground, governments worldwide should tell people exactly what will happen.
Next, instead of recruiting limited sponsorship from the rich and powerful to build eight arks, all the people and all the governments in the world should work together to build 8000 arks or as many as possible. Governments work together to improve the technology and organize resources. People work together to contribute, either money or labor.
“To be human means to care for each other, and civilization means to work together to create a better life”. Yes, only by unit can mankind survive and only by unit can civilization last. There it no other way.
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December 28, 2009 1:57 pm | 
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You know, I have to tell you, I really enjoy this blog and the insight from everyone who participates. I find it to be refreshing and very informative. I wish there were more blogs like it. Anyway, I felt it was about time I posted, Ive spent most of my time here just lurking and reading, but today for some reason I just felt compelled to say this.