Extraterrestrial Examples

On Friday night, I saw WallE for probably what was the tenth time. I didn’t really expect to get anything new out of it, but I actually found myself comparing the movie to today’s culture. In addition to the refusal to believe that the climate is changing, which could result in the wasteland of an Earth that WallE portrayed, there is an overall resistance to change. Just like the people on the space craft, who were constantly being bombarded with propaganda and were under the illusion that they were living fulfilling lives, we sometimes are so absorbed with the media in today’s social climate that it is difficult to realize what is going on around us. And similar to the forces that tried to stop WallE, the little robot who, contrary to his rusty old appearance, represented change, there always seems to be someone resistant to change.

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