I had a yen today to watch Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It was the fourth film in the series, and it’s one of my favorites. It’s very refreshing to see a lot of rich fat-heads choking on their hubris. The world needs more of that in real life.
Fallen Kingdom, like all the others in the series, is a parable. “There was once a man, or group of them, who thought he could do absolutely anything…” We know where this is going–to the Land of Nothing Works. Just a couple of minutes into the film, we see an elevator door that doesn’t work. It’s telling us what to expect.
And it’s not just the machines that fall down on the job. The shambles, the disaster, is caused entirely by Real Smart People blinded by their own reflections in the mirror. But we know from history that most of the really stupid things done by the human race–Original Sin, in fact–are done by idiots who think they’re geniuses.
Our world already has too much of that.
I’m afraid that this is playing out in real time. The quality of service we receive in this highly computerized world has declined, as businesses become over reliant upon automated systems and seek to eliminate human interaction.
Totzaally dependent on machines = up a tree and behind the 8-ball.
I worry about this sort of thing, all the time.
Our guardian angels have their work cut out for them.
I believe it is in Revelation where it describes four angels holding back the four winds. That may refer to controlling the natural forces, but sometimes I wonder if it doesn’t also refer to keeping things from breaking down altogether.
I pray we don’t find out the hard way.
The fourth Jurassic movie ends with the dinosaurs getting loose and going into American residential sections. The 5th installment is coming out soon and oh, boy, what havoc that should cause innocent bystanders. Jurassic movies and Indiana Jones movies are about the only times we sit in a darkened theater room and wonder why they have the soundtrack play so loudly.
I think all the movie theaters around here are out of business.