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3% is heaven

posted 8 years ago by deaddisco79
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I think the show is a comment on the concept of heaven. Only the "worthy" 3% get to go to this paradise based on merit. The other 97% are on the Inland, living in "hell". The Process is judgement day.

The commentary the show makes is that this idea of the 3% as worthy of living in paradise/heaven while everyone else suffers, is the same as how religion has those deemed "good" going to heaven, while everyone else who wasn't deemed worthy enough going to hell.

When you think about it, how can those who are deemed worthy be fine with leaving everyone else they grew up with, loved and cared for, for the first 20 years of their lives behind? With no way to contact them? How can this be right? Just as with heaven...how can it be heaven if you are fine with just leaving everyone else to suffer? Your mother, father, siblings, etc.?

We even have Fernando's father as a pastor, preaching about the Process.

This is what I took away from the show.

[–] nattygpuffr 8 years ago

That's a very good theory! I definitely see the similarities.

[–] DrunkPanda 8 years ago

My takeaway was that the 3% were the ones that were super lucky to be in their circumstances and didn't really deserve it. They were deemed to be the 3% by very arbitrary tests.

This is analogous to the upper class in the real world. Most of which were born into their wealth, they just won the genetic lottery to be born into those families and didn't do anything to deserve their fabulous wealth and easy lifestyle. As well as the growing discontent of the lower & middle classes with the unfairness of the upper class having all the power and wealth and the barriers that prevent the lower/middle class from becoming upper class themselves