Perhaps the title of a new blog ? Or just the title of this blog ?
Either way, onto the ramblings themselves. And, yes - I am bored at work waiting for things that need to happen to happen. I should probably work on the ability to generate work for myself. I'm sure it'd come in handy. Either way ....
I've noticed a TV trend or a trend in the TV that I like to watch. It's the idea of what do normal people do when abnormal things start happening. I picked up a show a couple years back called the 4400. Very cool show. It's about 4400 people who disappeared (abducted from earth by UFO's) over the last 200 years. They all suddenly reappear together at the same place at the same time - not having aged one bit. Weird.
What does a person do when their spouse who disappeared 40 years ago returns still 20, but they're 60 ?
Then there is the army guy, whose buddies are now in wheelchairs and he's still 18 ?
What does the American gov't do ? Because, of course, all these people reappear in the States.
Then, of course, they each develop a power. And, now ... how do they deal with that ?
In a similar vein - Heroes (another new favorite of mine). Regular people, rick, poor, greedy, generous, hate everybody, love everybody - a whole bunch of people discover they have powers. What does that do to a person ? How does that do to the people around them.
I've had the thought rolling in my head that we think of ourselves as civilized. But, the only reason we are civilized is that the society we live in has controls around everything - laws, rules, social norms. War, natural disasters, end times stuff....that messes with the rules. How will we behave when we don't have those rules directing us. Times like that test who we are and it tests our relationships.
Either way, onto the ramblings themselves. And, yes - I am bored at work waiting for things that need to happen to happen. I should probably work on the ability to generate work for myself. I'm sure it'd come in handy. Either way ....
I've noticed a TV trend or a trend in the TV that I like to watch. It's the idea of what do normal people do when abnormal things start happening. I picked up a show a couple years back called the 4400. Very cool show. It's about 4400 people who disappeared (abducted from earth by UFO's) over the last 200 years. They all suddenly reappear together at the same place at the same time - not having aged one bit. Weird.
What does a person do when their spouse who disappeared 40 years ago returns still 20, but they're 60 ?
Then there is the army guy, whose buddies are now in wheelchairs and he's still 18 ?
What does the American gov't do ? Because, of course, all these people reappear in the States.
Then, of course, they each develop a power. And, now ... how do they deal with that ?
In a similar vein - Heroes (another new favorite of mine). Regular people, rick, poor, greedy, generous, hate everybody, love everybody - a whole bunch of people discover they have powers. What does that do to a person ? How does that do to the people around them.
I've had the thought rolling in my head that we think of ourselves as civilized. But, the only reason we are civilized is that the society we live in has controls around everything - laws, rules, social norms. War, natural disasters, end times stuff....that messes with the rules. How will we behave when we don't have those rules directing us. Times like that test who we are and it tests our relationships.
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