This scene from the film Hunger Games eerily parallels the socio-political situation of the West (which is slowly creeping on the more conservative shores of the East). You think that by killing Snow, the people of Panem would welcome a new society devoid of the tyranny of the previous dictatorship. But Katniss knew that Coin is just like her name–the other side of the coin–coated in virtue but really, she is just the other end of the spectrum of the same evil. Same as what we see especially on Western society in terms of (reverse) racism; fourth wave feminism (which is really just misandry), and gender ideology which seeks to erase women. That and much more issues, just flipped on the other side. It’s really just going back to the same old rotten culture, only with a new face. If only, like Katniss, we can put an end to a new era of evil before it even begins… but I know that a utopian world is magical thinking and we are living in this world tarnished with sin. What we can do, really is call out evil for what it is, and speak The Truth. Not the subjective truth relativist spew but the absolute truth. Even if you will be labelled as a bigot, a hater, or whatever label people put on you just because you think differently than them.
No comments:
Post a Comment