Ohioian, Texan, Rationalist

O H! I O!

January 9, 2009 comment.

Here's hoping that TSCC is continued with new ep's for several years. I enjoy the series. My college son enjoys the series. Wow a family thing! We speculate together.

Someone on a thread made a comment that recent past generations were cheerful and optimistic more than now. All past generations lived on fear and propaganda. Human kind has had to fight for every step of the way to push the powers in control to give human decency, respect, and kindness to who is not in control. I do NOT remember my grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and history records being cheerful and optimistic. Only the few Powers in Control were cheerful and optimistic.

Whenever mankind tried to find this freedom for happiness, someone spoiled it with an Inquisition for imprisonment and/or death (Spanish, Hitler, McCarthy, ethnic cleansing, only one religion is true, etc).

You would think human equality and rights would be obvious. That respect for each other's lives and property were sacred. Our belief in a super-natural or not is our own to choose. Civil liberty versus private liberty should be clear.

Terminator is meant to bring all these questions to the front of our minds. To remind us to prepare and pay attention. We are to ask questions, study the records, don't be apathetic or live life in tunnel vision. We all are suppose to limit the powers of the few to protect the many. Terminator is LOUD and CLEAR on that.

Sure our lives are longer, science did that. (Thank you, all aspects of scientists!) But, we must never let up the pursuit of happiness and optimism that one day our lives may be similar to what we witnessed from the imagination of the writers of Star Trek on our home planet, Earth. (Star Trek is just an illustration, not perfect.)

Those of you I've encounter that have only listened to their elders, please review all history records and watch for propaganda. You can spot it by it's trying to limit a freedom without harm to others as a good reason. Anything else deviating from the definition of harm to just limiting freedoms is what Terminator is knocking us over the head to figure out. Machines..get rid of humans so they can have the perfect world as they perceive it so far, hah. Think they won't evolve to be like humans in the end?

It is too bad that Humans did not evolve to feel each other's pain. Gee, no war, no torture, no rape, no fisical abuse, no a lot of things that humans do to each other. That super powerful entity forgot something if the entity created us.