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Is it so wrong that I don't feel bad for all the people in the inland?

posted 8 years ago by obeycrossliving
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At the earlier episodes I was all for bringing down the process and ending the whole 3% get a good life thing. But as I progress with the series I actually started rooting for the other side. When you think about it the process chooses the societies elite based on marit nothing else. The philosophy of only the strongest survive. And honestly as I watched the last episode I really thought the cause was really more evil then the whole process. And ezequiel such a unique character best actor in the whole show. I really did have a huge opinion change after I watched that episode with his wife and the flashback.
Btw- I am not saying I agree with the 3% philosophy but the show didn't do a good job of showing me who the bad guy was.

[–] Camikka 8 years ago

The point is: there is no bad guy. People are just different degrees of flawed and selfish.

[–] shaylahc 8 years ago

I agree, and in the scene where Joanna and Fernando are going down the hill, they stop to drink the water and race down the hill...it made me think of the simple pleasures in life (like having children!) Maybe being chosen is not all that great.

[–] MerovingianGoddess 8 years ago

Some of that water was brown and rust-iron looking. Who can relate to happiness in that filth? If poverty is so miraculous and eye-opening, why does the US always have late night infomercials collecting money for 3rd world orphans? Isn't starvation, wearing rags and making homes out of scrap much more enlightening than The Offshore, by some people's sympathy for the devil here?

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[–] bothhands25 8 years ago

Joanna makes a point to Fernando to the end about only the "worst" people making it all the way through. I'm not certain I agree with her, but if we take her words as writer intent, the process removes the least desirable qualities in humanity from the gene pool.

[–] veictor 8 years ago

An answer to your question: Yes, it is.

[–] casak36 8 years ago

Yes. It is. They aren't in any fashion allowing the fittest to survive. If they were, there'd be no medical care. It's simply people who have a set of qualities they find valuable and only surround themselves with people like themselves because everyone else is less worthy *to them*.

Compassion is valued in some societies. Equality. Empathy. This is not one of that sort. Their values are as random as any other society who believes only people like themselves are worthy of life.

[–] paulfitzpa 8 years ago

"The philosophy of only the strongest survive"

Except it is not that, it's a corrupt and authoritarian government that has an unusual contest for selecting who the elite should be. There isn't much merit involved. I would argue that the "strongest" are the people who survive amongst the 97%

[–] fjmsoftware 8 years ago

Yes, it is, and it puts you squarely in the "heartless bastards" camp, which was already crowded enough. :)

[–] Emathy 8 years ago

There are heartless bastards on both sides. Don't forget there were gangs like Gerson's people. Like others have said, the Process literally just picks out the people who are most like the existing members of that society. Look at all the political intrigue that happened in the background. Everyone involved was just trying to cover their own butt. Ezequiel's wife was probably supposed to be an example of someone who never should have gone to the other side, and it's not just because she left a child behind. (She reminded me of the girlfiend character in I Origins actually, AKA the manic pixie dream girl trope.)

[–] russellhantz 8 years ago

The process was completely arbitrary. Lots of people were eliminated for no good reason and lots of people made it to the end without proving their merit. I think the show did a good job of making it clear that the process was extremely unfair and arbitrary. Also, I'm not sure how you could not feel bad for the people in the inland. We didn't get a sense that there was any economy or governance there. People had no opportunities except the unjust, corrupt process.

[–] imvaughn 8 years ago

Yes but from what we saw they had no opportunity by choice. I didn't see the process destroying farms or businesses. I saw what we see today people in the ghetto not willing to work hard to get out. They thought the process was the answer. But why didn't those 20 plus year old who didn't make create a sheriff & an economy? Like dude told his mom.. No one told her to have all those kids. And like Fernando dad top busy preaching about heaven ( offshore) instead of real solutions. They aren't oppressing anyone. These people just aren't motivated. They want the "easy" way out. Go to the process & get utopia instead of working hard to fix where they are.

[–] mysticnox 8 years ago

That's called "clueless". People are just people. No one wants to suffer. But when you are born at the bottom, it's hard as hell to get to the top. You bet they are oppressing everyone. They could share and make everyones lives better. They don't because they don't want to. In the US, you are more likely than in any other first world country to never ever move up in class. It's called google, look it up and stop making excuses for the rich and useless.

[–] PopSixSquish 8 years ago

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