Shangri-La: Even in utopia things go wrong. Perhaps it’s a little hard to fault Hollywood for their dismal view of man’s future, although there is always an element of hope, even in “2012” which is supposedly the end of the world. Themes of death and destruction, invading aliens, plagues or starvation, technology run amok, climate disasters, nuclear Armageddon, or biological blunders all seem to have the same outcome. Not surprisingly, heroism always trumps stupidity. As in “Avatar”, there are directors like James Cameron that lay it on the line and make their political statement condemning the nature of man as being very near-sided, and deservedly so. What we do in the name of progress is all about now, as though tomorrow will be dealt with when it gets here. But isn’t it surprising how tomorrow inevitably becomes now, and guess what, no one dealt with the problem.
So are Hollywood’s little forays into the future making anyone more enlightened, or are they simple sensationalism portraying something we already know. Eating, having sex, and living are a full-time occupation, and solving problems has been delegated to politicians and capitalists that have their own agenda.
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