What We Watch/How We Act

I am re-watching episodes of AMC's The Walking Dead and flipping through facebook finding reports of Ebola victims rising from the dead. It's making me wonder.

I've always thought that some of  the things we have seen on the Big Screen are sure to be in our future lives.

Take Tron. The way the roads light up the way for drivers and pedestrians. It's very futuristic looking and yet it seems that we are already beginning to achieve this in the present day. Many people have seen the articles about solar roadways. Roadways that create energy, that light up to stop people from hitting obstacles. Roadways that are easily fixable and better for our environment.

So obviously this link between film and reality has some good sides to it. If it creates a better future for ourselves and our world. But what about all the negatives that go along with it?

There are reports that when the Twin Towers collapsed in 2001 that people stood and watched, awestruck, saying the it was "Like a Movie." Because of this comlex many died, crushed by the rubble, suffocated by the ash.

Now here I am, reading up on the Ebola Virus, seeing videos of the dead coming back to life and yet I am saying to myself, "No way it can't be real" and "That sort of thing only happens in movies." And then I put myself in the position of the characters on my TV Screen and think, maybe that's what they were scripted to think and by the time they had proof it was real, it was too late.

I just hope that I myself, and the people of the world don't continue with this complex of thinking that something wouldn't really happen because it 'belongs' in a movie. I hope that we learn from our films, not let them blind us.