I have been following the Tv-series ‘Continuum’ for a while now, and
would like to share a perspective that came up while watching the last
few episodes.
For those who are not familiar with Continuum, here a short delineation so you can have some background/context:
The series starts off in the future,
in the year 2077. Corporations have taken over the role of government,
where a ‘Corporate Congress’ rules. A rebel group (or terrorist group,
depending on ‘whose side’ you’re on) called Liber8 tries to fight the
corporatocracy in favour of a democracy, but their main players are
apprehended and to be executed. As they’re about to be executed,
something unexpected happens and they are sent back in time, to the year
2012. With them, one of the cops who was present at the execution, was
also sent back. Even though there are no longer in their timeline, the
Liber8 group tries to fight the corporations and change the future by
changing things in the past/present, while the lady cop still tries to
catch them and stop them.
What I find interest about the series is how no particular side is being
choses in terms of ‘who the good guys’ are and ‘who the bad guys are’.
One could relate to the Liber8 group as being ‘terrorists’ because they
are involved in illegal and sometimes violent activities, yet on the
other hand they are fighting for democracy and wanting to get rid of a
police-state, which is something a lot of people would be able to relate
to as ‘being a good thing’.
On the other hand you have the cop who wants to uphold the rule of law,
yet what is law is not always what is right or good – so there you have
another moral conundrum.
The point both the ‘fighters’ and ‘protectors’ share however, is that
they assume they can change the future by altering events in the past.
As the series progresses, and especially now in the last few episodes,
it becomes clear that even though their best intentions at changing
things in the past/present,
leads to bad outcomes in the future.
It’s quite fascinating, because the whole time, they are trying to
change events or create events, and then hope that by altering this and
that point, it will lead to some effect down the line that will make
‘everything better’. The whole point that seems to be missed then, is
that it’s pointless to try and change events, try and change ‘who’s in
charge’/’on top’ – without people actually changing.
You can have a timeline which is government heavy, and which can be
totally unsatisfying and unbearable, while you can also have a timeline
where government is basically nil and corporations have free reign,
which can be equally inadequate. In the end, it doesn’t matter ‘who’
rules in terms of the polarities and dualities we are used to
(corporations vs government, freedom fighters versus police/protectors) –
because in the end you are dealing with the exact same thing, which is =
human nature. You can go back in time as much as you want and try and
change events and hope to have a better future as an outcome, but so
long you don’t touch the point of changing human nature, you are merely
going to have the same outcome. Because, if you’re only changing events,
you’re not really changing anything.
In the series for example, there’s a lot of mention of electronic
technology and biotech that can potentially be dangerous for public
safety and wellbeing. A drug that can cure Alzheimer’s for instance, can
be messed with to become an addictive drug that can ruin people’s lives
if addicted. A health monitoring gadget, can potentially become a
device for mass control and manipulation.
These are for instance some of the points that the Liber8 group will
attempt to ‘stop’ and ‘destroy’ because they are ‘dangerous to mankind’.
The thing is, that they’re equally beneficial to mankind.
The
Alzheimer’s drug or the health monitoring gadget are in itself not evil.
They just ‘do what they do’. It’s is all up to the human element, the
‘who we are’ and what principles we live and stand by, that in the end
determines whether we’re going to have a cure for Alzheimer’s or another
devastating addictive drug on the street. Just as atomic science was
just another area of investigation and exploration to further scientific
research, development and knowledge, it was the human who decided to
use it in its destructive potential, rather than its constructive
potential.
I mean, it makes you wonder doesn’t it, about why we’re here on Earth.
All the things that have massive constructive potential, also have great
destructive potential. The internet as a recent point of technological
innovation can be constructive in bringing people together from all over
the world and increasing the speed at which we process and send
information – yet, at the same time, it’s also great catalyst of apathy,
separation, shallowness and triviality. In the end, it’s not about the
internet being either ‘good or bad’, but what we can tell about its
users in how the internet is being used.
A health monitoring gadget can be just that: a health monitoring gadget.
But it’s about ‘who wields it’, that in the end decides whether the
outcome we may observe and witness, is that of creation and support or
destruction and subversion.
You cannot change the outcome of a future, by going back in time and
‘prevent this and that from being made’. Because even though these
objects may not come into being, the evil that wielded it, is still ever
present, and that evil: is us.
We are on a planet with what seems like unlimited potential, yet the
only potential we seem interested in developing is the kind that
destructs and annihilates, the kind that keeps a few happy while a
majority suffer.
We were given dominion over the Earth and all things upon it – yet, we
decided to interpret this dominion as domination, where we perceived
this to be the permission to submit and subvert whatever and whomever we
want at our heart’s whims and desire. However, if you investigate the
word ‘dominion’, you will find that it roots back to the Latin word
‘domus’, which means house, home. We were given a
choice,
to develop, support and take of those living under our house, to
embrace all who reside in our responsibility – and yet, without even the
blink of an eye passing by, we decided that our dominion meant doing
whatever the fuck we want at whomevers expense, and this is exactly what
we have been living out, from the dawn of time till now.
There is no point to try and change the past.
There is no point in fighting one another.
What must change is us, who we are, our nature, the laws of our being that we live by
.
If you agree that we have to change our course of living, check out the
Desteni of Living, and change the principles you live by the ones that
are Best for All Life, so we may yet create Heaven on Earth.
