For my second choice blog I have decided to write about a
new TV show called “Revolution”. My friend had me watch a couple of episodes
over the weekend and my mind was blown by the ideals this show shares. “Revolution”
starts with what our world relies on today- electricity and technology with
energy sources. One night, the electricity and power sources all over the world
were wiped out. No cell phones, no computers, no electricity, no cars, and no
planes work. Then it fast forward fifteen years: the world literally works like
it does in “The Hunger Games”. There are
no countries; governments crumbled and neighbors turned on each other. The only
way to survive is through living in the countryside while hunting, farming, and
scavenging for food.
The theories in this show about today’s world captured me. I
always realized how much we depend on technology, but this show really made it
hit home. Cars don’t work. Boats don’t work. Planes don’t work. How the heck do
we travel? People are forced to travel by food and horse. There is no GPS that
works- we would have to go back to paper maps. At least we would know that those
were very accurate. Those who were in
different continents are forced to stay there. We do not have wood ships anymore
so you would be a sitting duck. Imagine not being able to see your family again
just because you took that trip to Italy at the wrong time.
There would no longer be infrastructure: money would not
mean anything. An example from “Revolution” is a guy that use to work for
Google. He had 60 million dollars in the bank, but when the lights went off it
was all worthless. People go back to bartering or trading gold and silver;
basically tangible currency.
When the lights turned off in “Revolution”, neighbors turned
on one another. Friends turned on one another. Family even turned on one
another. The world was in complete chaos. Some people could protect themselves
with guns; however, once they ran out of bullets, they were screwed. With no
one continuously making guns and bullets, those items became remarkably
valuable. People went back to using muskets, knives, swords, and self-defense
combat to protect themselves. This in itself shows how without electricity, we
would set back hundreds of years. Imagine breaking into a museum, taking a
musket and gun powder from the 1600s, and having to actually use that. And you
would probably have to fight some guy for it because he had the same bright
ideas as you. Weird.
People live like they
did in the 1600s. There are not factories to made food products like ketchup or
toilet paper. You would have to go back to raw foods and leaves. “Revolution”
makes references to Target and any other big company that play a big part in
our lives. Imagining a life with no grocery store, or place to buy clothes is a
very foreign idea. It’s very hard to imagine. Characters who were young during the
blackout don’t even know what Google or a Target is. A scene showed two kids
who found a trailer with an old refrigerator that held old items like peanut butter
and syrup in it. These kids had no idea what they were looking at. Again it’s
hard to comprehend. Any food that would need to be stored would go to waste. I
have to admit, it is slightly depressing thinking about a world without ice
cream.
A bigger problem is health. Doctors, pills, and medicine
became ten times more valuable. Along with no factories making toilet paper,
there would be no more pill making. The son in “Revolution” has asthma and the only
way those people know to stop an attack it is by a homemade remedy of herbs. The
son runs into a lady that has an inhaler and he has no idea what to do with it.
Plus, there is no more hydrogen peroxide to clean wounds- with all the
hand-to-hand combat, if you are stabbed in a fight there is a higher risk of
infection and the tools you would need to stitch yourself up would not be
sterilized. Any internal injuries like being stabbed in the stomach would be incurable
as well. After a fight scene in “Revolution”, one of the men is stabbed in the
stomach (like above) and he and his comrades are aware that he will not live.
Instead of dragging out the hours he had left, he resorts to a poison that
kills him in his sleep. If you were to get a major injury you would be done.
There is no hope. Also, there are no
x-ray machines if you break your arm, no CAT scans for concussions, no
hospitals or ambulances to come rescue you. You are alone.
After watching a couple episodes, it got me thinking what I would
want in my community of people to be most successful: a gun smith for defense
would be preferable, an architect for houses and a protective wall around my
area, a doctor for health reasons, a teacher of any kind to educate children
the basics, a martial arts master to teach people to defend themselves, farmers
and hunters, and a seamstress. Wow that’s
a long list. I realize how lucky I am to live in the community we have today or
how needy we are.
All of this technology is at the tip of our fingers and we do
not even appreciate it. We do not realize how fortunate we are or how thankful
we should be to those who got us where we are today.
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