Major cosmic dangers

Three dramatic works that I watched successively during this period all tell dystopian tales that imagine the earth and humanity after a natural disaster that ends life as we know it. In general, I am a fan of futuristic drama, which is always dystopian and pessimistic, in terms of containing many philosophical analyzes about the concept of life and the meaning of humanity, and the meaning of being physiologically human and the meaning of being psychologically human, as these works often discuss the steadfastness of principles Humanity is faced with the survival instinct and the motive for the continuation of the species in major catastrophic situations. The series “The Hundred” or “The 100” tells the story of the end of life on Earth due to a nuclear conflict that left the Earth completely radioactive, as only a relatively small number of humans who managed to escape to space lived in temporary space stations, waiting for the return of the health of the Earth and its ability to contain humans again. . The atmosphere of the series was stifling as it showed humanity trapped in metallic space stations, giving renewed meaning to the simple outdoor scene that I watched every morning from my windows. I live in one of the relatively new neighborhoods in Kuwait, where a yellow desert land extends on the outskirts of our region. I have always wished for green, and I have always been fed up with the repetition of its color, appearance and texture, which seems to extend and extend to infinity. During the weeks of watching the series, the outward appearance of the series seemed to me very refreshing. The desert seemed beautiful, liberated, full of air, that air that had become so cherished in the series, and that liberation that had completely disappeared in its episodes when all humanity was imprisoned in gloomy tin cans hovering in space. Even class death will comfort the better off before the worst, but it will not extend to the supreme, for these are postponed in favor of more days, more pleasures of life, but the most urgent idea in this dramatic work was the idea of human societies turning from humane to survival in terms of their complete readiness to savage to preserve On life and persistence of kind. In the midst of this conflict, and despite all the disasters, tragedies, and blood that the series predicted in its sequence of events, a class was created among the survivors whose reference was the purity of bloodline and then physical strength. At each stage of the series, humans are divided into classes, through which the strong oppress the weak and the rich and the poor, with a relative change in the meaning of wealth and poverty. We always end up here, an ugly class whose danger outweighs even the greatest global dangers. The series "Snowpiercer" tells the story of the deterioration of the Earth's environment until it became unfit for human habitation due to industries that raised the level of pollution to the point of freezing global temperatures. And to prevent a catastrophe they created, the rich financed the construction of a huge train, as if it were an entire city, extending over an area of one thousand and one huge trailers that these people prepared to climb on board and continue to move around the world to prevent freezing until the atmosphere adjusts and the earth returns to its old validity. However, the poor and middle-income attacked the train before its launch, so some of them climbed on board, and the train split into the tail, where the destitute intruders live, and then to the advanced degrees of the third, second and first, where the richest people who financed the train live. The train is ruled by the same idea-maker, Mr. Wilford, who soon discovers that it does not exist and that there are a group of train drivers who speak his name and delude the train's occupants of his existence and power, and who make all judgments and decide all fates on his tongue. We do not see this man or hear his voice throughout the series. The inhabitants of the tail lived in the most dire conditions, completely cloaked in cramped, dingy, windowless tin trailers, so that they had never seen the sun since the train began running seven years ago. Life declines with these people to the point of starving each other, and with the continued deprivation of all the necessities of life in addition to their hideous persecution by the military force on the train. A revolution begins to boil, starting from this distant tail, a thousand and one trailers away from the front. Episodes take us from trailer to trailer as survivors build terrestrial human-like worlds, secret towns, popular neighbourhoods, infested dens, and then there's the front of the train, where the opulence of swimming pools, tiny villas, and cool aquariums. We always end up here, an ugly class whose danger outweighs even the greatest global dangers. As for the movie “Miniaturization,” it tells the story of a funny scientific solution to the future problem, global warming and overpopulation, through the process of reducing humans to a size of 12.7 centimeters, so that these miniature people move to life in model experimental neighborhoods that reduce costs, expand the floor space and reduce pollution and waste rates. Through the story of a husband and wife who, after going through financial difficulties, decide to go through this irreversible process of miniaturization, meaning that it is not possible to return to normal size after its completion, we discover how these “model” societies are far from being ideal, as these neighborhoods quickly divide The miniature neighbourhoods are transformed into luxury neighborhoods for the rich and miserable neighborhoods for the poor, and soon merchants begin gambling with people's lives and penetrating supposed stability through financial manipulation. During this, humans begin to divide the "racial size" between "the young" and "the old" to show discrimination with its ugly face towards the miniature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The process of miniaturization is transformed from a rescue methodology to a punishment method, whereby some human rights fighters, for example, or those who encourage revolutions and sit-ins, are minimized and then thrown into miserable miniature neighborhoods to deteriorate their lives further. We always end up here, an ugly class whose danger outweighs even the greatest global dangers. Watching these works seemed to fit the general atmosphere and my special mood that this general atmosphere formed. The thought came: If the coronavirus takes us to a catastrophic stage, if it turns us down the path of cosmic annihilation, will any of us survive? Who will be the surviving group? The rich will surely be the survivors, not the scientists, not the thinkers, not even the clever ones who made the ideas of survival, nor the craftsmen who built the survival headquarters. ?? will survive

Ibtihal Al-Khatib https://www.alhurra.com/different-angle/2020/06/23/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%89