Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Betrayed along the way
From Time Travel To
Rewriting THE Bible
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/from-time-travel-to-rewriting-the-bible-a0ef2d7ac64a
A
phenomenal beginning both surprising and fascinating. 44 was enough to
titillate the curiosity of anyone raised in a Western, mostly Christian
culture: 4 (the crucifixion) times 11 (the Apostles without Judas the commonly
considered traitor). But this promise is quickly rewritten as a Prophet with a
Book found in some tomb, coded in an unknown language, telling them what is
going to happen, and what they have to do in full obedience. Banal.
A
beautiful book revisited and telling us about time travel. 4400 people
kidnapped in today’s world by humans from this world but a long time further
and farther on the timeline, a world that is going to be destroyed because of a
mistake done today, and then these kidnapees are sent back all in one batch
with the mission to repair what is going to cause the final deadly and
apocalyptic catastrophe. H.G. Wells revisited, the book and all the cinema
adaptations, including of course the recent one by a distant relative of the
author, another Wells in the boat.
But
here again, we are disappointed and the series turns into a capture of absolute
power by one man and his movement (you remember Lenin and the Bolshevik Party,
or Trump and the Republican Party) and with a good organic supplement to
protect those who cannot assimilate “promicin” despite all efforts and research,
this particle that is more or less governing our brain, will make all humans
peaceful, peace-loving and peace-keeping, in one word, sheep. That is the fall
into the abyss of delirious normalizing dystopia. Humanity is seen as a flock
of ovines with a good shepherd and a bunch of very faithful dogs.
This
series turns sour in the third season and becomes humdrum in the fourth season.
Time Travel is lost, and we just sink into some totalitarian state, even if it
is only Seattle. Very un-optimistic about the future of the USA, even in
Washington.
You
can imagine my disappointment.
Éditions
La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023
