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The Ideal Society Depicted In The Film 'Alien'

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What may be today's brilliant idea or solution can be tomorrow's biggest flaw. That's the issue. Future is unpredictable. And not to forget, human beings are different and where there's difference there's going to be a possible conflict. And in a perfect society, we seek harmony and not conflict. However, one way to minimize the conflict is "one truth." One truth helps understand life's direction to anything. This also encourages peace which can be helpful in achieving this ideal society we all seek. The ideal society helps to explain or at least justify the acts and motives in the relationship of the characters in the movie Alien 1979 -- A commercial crew aboard the deep space towing vessel, Nostromo is on its way home when they pick …show more content…

Now these principle are existed since the day one of the creation of this life form. By “survival of the fittest” Darwin did not mean that the toughest will survive, the swiftest will win, the smartest will succeed, or the biggest will dominate. What Darwin meant was something far different. Darwin said that the organism that best “fits” its environment had the best chance of survival; hence, the term “survival of the fittest.” The plant or animal best “fitted” to its natural environment, according to Darwin, would be the most likely to survive and thrive. Charles Darwin Theory from the 19th Century the 'survival of the fittest' is highly demonstrated in the Alien movie as in the desire of the aircraft crew -- the humans -- to control a superior been -- the alien -- with technology as their environment in the mission to capture and transport the creature. And in the character of the alien to perpetuate its species using the humans' body as a vessel for its offspring. The “survival of the fittest” is better translated in the movie as the one who would better capacity to control superior specie. As perfect society will be a place which completely negates the principle of …show more content…

is a long way away from creating a robot that easily can learn and is self-aware enough to cast its human operators aside and take over the world." This 'creational fear' which is portrait in the movie Alien 1979 between the humans crew members and the android who rebels against mankind, comes from mankind going on a full circle repeating its own history. Creationism says that before time began, God purposed to create a new world. To inhabit this new world, God would create a race of beings that would hold a special place in His ultimate plans for His creation. The story of creation as recorded by Moses in the book of Genesis tells us, that in six days, God created the heavens and the Earth. With the creation of our planet, God created a special garden which He called Eden, and from the dust of the ground, God created a man who He called Adam. Whom later betrayed his own creator and this betrayal fear became natural to man of one day history repeating itself. Even famous physicist Stephen Hawking spoke at the Zeitgeist Conference about A.I. (Artificial Intelligence), saying: "It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded." Creation turning against its

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