Blog 7

A theme that I noticed throughout the three pieces shown to us was the human thought that we need to have labels for everyone.  The idea that there needs to be rich people in charge, masses of poor, and just the thought that humans are the most intelligent species is a major issue.  For example, in the Calvin and Hobbes comic, the aliens come in and say that human death is needed for their survival.  Granted, we don't know if aliens are even real or not, but extinguishing even the thought of their existence is too much for the human species to decide.  We can talk, have opposable thumbs, and have the capacity to learn new things, but that should not make us think we're the indestructible species.  This is even seen when just looking at humans by themselves.  In the Handlebars song and V for Vendetta, the fact that corporations, governments, and the "important" people take others and their rights for granted is ridiculous.  All human beings are the same, obviously with some differences in DNA and cultures, but we are the same.  Why does there need to be this capitalistic climb to the top?  There are hundreds of different cases that revolve around this issue that range from the Ferguson shootings to white people making decisions for people of color to trying to be in control of other people’s decisions for life and even death.  Loopholes exist in the federal government of the U.S.  An example I recently learned was that the person(s) who are trying to get a certain bill passed can include other completely irrelevant, yet popular, laws to get people to vote in favor of the original bill.  A current form of media that represents all of this would definitely be The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.  District 13 rises up and plans an attack on the Capital.  With all of these recent discussions of dystopian worlds, it seems as if that is where the human race is headed.