There is a mini-series which started on the Syfy channel tonight called: ALICE. It is a re-imagine of Lewis Carroll's classic with a syfy - modern - totalitarian twist. I am only about 40 minutes in but so far I like it. It is pretty "family" friendly so far [I would label it 16+]. It is a sort of Alice meets 1984 sprinkled with the Matrix.
One line that instantly caught my attention was the King of Hearts of the totalitarian-esque wonderland who says:
If our people don't feel what they want to feel when they want to feel it - well the whole system breaks down!! Instant gratification, it's a very complex business.
If that isn't a summation of our society I don't know what is. At some point we become dependent on instant-gratification. Once we have it... and then start to lose it, we begin to rebel. But where does that rebellion take us?
Think about the Church as we see it today. We have lived in a sort of WONDERLAND since the 1970's. We felt and worshipped how we wanted, when we wanted it. Then, as Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict have begun to remove that instant-gratification we have rebelled. But against what? And where do we hope to get? What is our ultimate end?
Likewise, what about our culture? When we no longer can feel what we want to feel... what will we rebel against? And what will we hope to "win"? Has right and wrong been destroyed only to leave fun and boring as our "moral poles"?
The show seems REALLY good, at least on an allegorical level... and I look forward to doing a full post about it after I watch the full thing and take some notes. And survive doing so w/o my wife killing me. So until then....
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