Sci Fi and Music

Yesterday we talked about sci-fi in music. In the moment I couldn't think about anything in particular, except for, of course, Bowie and The Flaming Lips that Diego mentioned. But, on my way home, I remembered a Jon Anderson's album (he's one of the guys from yes), called Olias of Sunhillow. It's about an alien race that have to leave their planet and look for a new world and it's also really nice music, really prog rock Yes-like.
But, the thing that I couldn't stop thinking about, but it's not proper music or song (well, it is...) is this:

Maybe something like that will happen some day, althoug  it definitely wasn't in the year 2000. But anyway, I love these guys :)

World in 2000

I just saw this post in the depths of the internet.
Is curious how in 1910 they saw how the world would be in 90 years.

How will it be in the year 2100?

you can see the whole set of images here

It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?

So, finally and a century late, I start to write my blog. I apologize for that! (both starting so late and the fact you'll have to read, well... this).

I named this entrance as one of my favorite quotes in the movie. Why? Because, yes it's touching, but also because is one of the most relevant topic in the plot, especially for the replicants this time. How long will they live? When will they die? But why should they die when they’re supposed to do it. What give someone the power to decide that something or someone will live "x" amount of time? Or just kill them before that time happens.

This, for me is one important and big etic issue to discuss. As we talked in class a couple of weeks before, this “egocentrism”, I don’t know when appeared but it has been present in so many event through human history that is hard to think of us, a human society without it. But what do I refer as this “egocentrism”?, well just the idea of believing that we are more worth it, better and bigger, and not just us as a whole human society in the 21. century, but just us (or them) who have the real power and the society that is socialized to support them. Because us, as South Americans and indigenous weren’t enough to be humans and they could take people back to Europe and show them in a circus, and because women weren’t allowed to talk or even think by themselves. Or even the fact that today we consider ourselves better than any other animal and we stand apart of the definition itself!

This lack of empathy and humanity, the lack of responsibility, makes me think that even though that the central thing in Blade Runner haven’t happen yet (the replicants and the development of the robotics and genetic engineering that will allow to make them),  in the case we do, the same or even worse would happen. Because we’re used to use “the other”. We don’t care if they might feel, or die, or think, we just do it. Yesterday was the Jews, and the black people, etc., tomorrow might be easily the clones, replicants, or whoever. Today it’s happening with the kids in Asia and with nature itself, I won’t be surprised that someone will find a method to slave cows, and we’ll just do it, and then we’ll kill it. Because most of us would be as Tyrell, if it didn’t work, we can delete it! It’s not like they are important. Who cares anyway? They are not humans.

But well, I really enjoy the movie, it makes you think on what can we do, how far we can go, how we may think. And besides, Harrison Ford it’s always nice for the view.