There’s a chill in the air. The wind gusts around me, and jacketless it bites a little. The dampness of the morning settles into my bones. Its grey today. Yesterday was bright and beautiful, the kind of washed clean look the world gets in spring. Not the lush green that usually means Easter, but that just washed look of clothes just from the machine ready to hit the dryer. It’s the kind of day that promotes my favorite activity. Watching movies. I am big fan of movie watching. All kinds too.. action/adventure, sci/fi fantasy… even some romance and drama. I watched Battlefield Earth again over the weekend. I enjoy futuristic disaster movies. Marvel about the “restart” of mankind that comes with many of them. Apart from the scientology aspect of the movie, and the books as well, I enjoy the idea of humanity reclaiming what’s been lost. Returning to its former glory and the path that it may take to get there. I wonder how much clannishness would take place and whether we would climb out of that to once again become a civilization, or would our people stagnate, and remain uniformed.

It’s generally inspiring, because I like to believe in the basic desire of humanity to make itself better…to act in a good manner, a righteous manner. To see the faults we all have and share and to find ways to overcome them. In most cases I mean. Know what drives that, though, in every story like that? What drives the people to act together? Similar circumstances. Basically…. Equality. Equal shares for all regardless of race or creed. Think about the disaster movies you have seen. Think about the people who “make it out” or who are saved or whatever. How many of these movies have a “group” who makes it by working together to accomplish a goal and how many of the guys you end up calling a$$hole are out to save their own skin, get what they can for themselves who winds up being not only ostracized, but left behind or outright cutoff from the group who is undoubtedly going to make it?. Which characters do you find yourself identifying with more closely, and which one do you wish had never been helped at all? How many times does that character end up getting his “just desserts” in the end? How many times does the group who works together to make it right, or do what is so obvious, win? And don’t you cheer for them in the end and boo the ass?

So why is it that we who love the good guys and hate the bad guys, allow them to exist in our society? Why is it we reward the ones who are obviously in it for themselves with our adoration and praise? Why is it that we haven’t weeded those out like Hollywood does? Why do we allow the ones who capitalize on the misery of others, or suck down as much “water” as they can without thinking about the rest of the group, to live free and clear? Is it because secretly we want to be *just like* them? If that’s the case, why is that these movies are so successful?