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apocalyptic movies and games are things that have swept across pop culture on
numerous occasions, be it in the form of zombie movies to the Fallout franchise. There’s this strange
sort of allure to these things, this idea that we will one day reach this point
in society where everything begins to break down. However, would it be wrong to
say that this sort of thing is already happening? Perhaps not to a massive
extent: Society is still stable, there aren’t any zombies running around, and
the world isn’t filled with radioactive monsters roaming the badlands. Still,
to say that we’re not approaching this apocalyptic point would be wrong. It’s
just coming in a much more different way than we could have anticipated.
In James Williams’ book Stand out of our Light, a chapter that
really interested me was chapter four. In here, we see him talking about this
idea of an “iTrainer” which, lo and behold, is basically the idea of the
iPhone. The chapter goes on to talk about how this device can regulate our
lives, and basically control nearly every facet of our waking lives. This is
absolutely true in many ways. I can’t remember a day when I didn’t use my phone
for more than an hour out of my day. It’s just something we’ve gotten used to,
something that’s ingrained within our society to such a point that we would be
lost without them. We are so dependent on our technology that we use it to
solve even the most basic problems in our lives (no one can say they’ve never
met someone who needed to use a calculator to figure out what 1+1 was).
Now I’m sure some people are
wondering why I’m talking about technology and phones when the topic of the
blog is about post-apocalyptic things. The reason, however, is pretty
interesting. I would propose that we’re already on our way to this sort of
post-apocalyptic world in a faster way than we could have imagined, due to
technology in our lives.
The argument that technology is
supposed to make our lives better is one that I’m fairly accustomed with. I’ve
used it a few times when talking to my parents, since they criticize my use of
Youtube (even though watching TV is almost the exact same thing). However, I
could also see it in the opposite way. Because we depend so much on technology,
we become lazy and complacent. Creativity when it comes to technology begins to
deteriorate, due to bigger companies owning monopolies on certain types of
technologies (Apple and Samsung to name a few). Our technological advancement,
then, is dependent on these companies when they come out with bigger, better
things to help make us even lazier.
Now imagine, for a moment, what
might happen if all this technology fails us suddenly. Just, one day, it all
stops, with wifi being taken down all across the world, phone lines and
cellular devices unable to work, and all electricity ceasing. What might happen
then? We could still work, still do things, and everything would be fine.
However, to almost everyone, this might put us into an apocalyptic setting.
With everything breaking, everything stopping, it would cause a world-wide
panic. We’d probably start riots at this big companies, turn to other means of
finding entertainment that might be more shady than good, and turn to anarchy
in many ways all around the world. This is because we’ve become utter slaves to
our technology to the point that we can’t go a single day without turning
something on, be it for our own entertainment, our jobs, or to simply function
as human beings. In this way, although different than in games like Fallout or zombie movies, we would find
ourselves lost in this apocalyptic wasteland of our own making.
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