BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:THE PROBLEM HUMANITY HAS WITH RICHARD MATHESON'S \"I AM LEGE ND\" 07/17/2021 DTSTAMP:20250526T184147Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:307-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n THE PROBLEM HUMANITY HAS WITH RICHARD MATHESON'S \"I AM L EGEND\" 07/17/2021\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n THE PROBLEM HUMANITY HAS WITH RICHARD MATHESON'S \"I AM LEGEND\"\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n To be honest\, the video pos ter below has flaws. I read \"I am legend\". MAtheson in the video said t he real problem and I amend it is with most of the movies\; said problem i s\,  it isn't his story.\n\n\n\n  \n \n The last man on earth\n \n\n \ n The Omega man\n \n\n \n The potential Arnold swartzenegger I am legend \n \n\n \n Will smith's I am legend\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Of those films only the last man of earth actually resembles anything to MAtheson's story . The question is\, what is matheson's story? the cheap reader thinks the story is about Neville. the wise reader knows the story is about humanity. Matheson's story post a simple question. What if a Virus kills or makes e xtremely sick all of modern humanity save one. Modern humanities technolog y fails to undue the affects from the virus . Modern humanities technology fails to stop the deaths from the virus. One human being is left alone am idst two other human being types\, the dead or the infected.\n\n\n\n Charl ton Heston/Arnold Swrzenegeer/Will Smith saw in the story\, idolatry to th e individual\, perseverance to modern humanity. But the truth is\, Neville for all of this loneliness has one great flaw. He is convinced humanity i s doomed. He is convinced humanity will die. He sees himself as the last m an.  The loneliness /his culture/the human society he was born or raised in can't comprehend the simple truth. Humanity survived. A fourth type of human exists in the book\, slowly growing in number. The civilized. Nevil le\, the dead\, the insanely infected\, the civilized carriers\, are the four human being types at the end. And Neville who has become completely u ncivilized through years or loneliness plus deadly habit plus negative cul ture he was raised in\, can not exists side the civilized carriers. Moreov er he is feared by the civilized carriers\, plausibly. I will restate but I will go to the three films that miss this. HEston's film like Will smith s negate the idea\, the primary concept\, that Neville is the last human l ike myself. Sequentially\, the big failing in telling the story from the b ook. A main plot point is that modern human society failed\, completely. I t tried\, it worked hard\, and it failed. BUT\, Nature is greater than hum an technology\, I didn't say  GOD \, I said Nature\,  and humanity as a child of nature adapted through natural means. I imagine ridley scott want ed swrazenegger to be killed by the victorious vampire-esque infected peop le. A somber thought that the studios did not like. But\, scott or the stu dios have it wrong. Humanity survived. You see\, one of the problems with human beings and the idea of apocalypse is the myth that if humanities tec hnology fails\, all is doomed. but all isn't. Women \, even infected with various ailments\, have children. Some people will act undifferent while c arrying a virus that will make others incomprehensible. NEville is so conv inced as is most of the producers of the films that humanity is finished w hen technology fails against a virus that they forget humanity is very old . A virus can kill many\, most\, but no virus ever killed all humans. No v irus has ever killed the entirety of humanity and after every single viral spread the humans who lived... lived... that is what I am legend is about . It is a creation story told from the angle of the last person from the o ld community. In my mind I can see Obatala/Zeus/Amatarasu/Quetzecoatl as h uman beings from an old community that are legends that have been given go dhood\, a controller of nature\, a very human mental construct.  Matheso n could had told the story from the angle of Ruth\, who is a child born fr om the infected who is infected herself but can live with the virus. But h e didn't want that\, the trick of the story \, is we are getting the creat ion story from the angle of the last of the old community\, the one who is legend. ... One of the finest lines in the book\, is when NEville asks r uth \, to guide the future humanity\, don't let them make the same mistake s. NEville comprehends the technology he needed to change\, to improve\, w as his culture. Culture is what you want to grow. He realize at the end\, his heritage\, what you carry was the technology that was lacking.  Not\ , epidemiology or biology or the scientific method. His culture. His abili ty to accept change he can not control or escape from or immigrate from. C hange that will destroy the community \, the humanity he knows. A culture that can accept that a new humanity will exists\, it will survive through what the old could not. And lastly\, NEville realized what all the movies\ , including even\, the last man on earth\, fail to show. NEville had a cha nce to teach\, he had a chance to guide the new humanity but he was busy b eing angry at the death of the old community that he is the last represent ative of\, angry that he was alone\, angry that no one else shared his si milar experiences\, that he spent all that time killing or hunting or tre ating the coming new human community as villains\, merely for living with a virus\, overcoming the failing from the virus\, he hated.\n\n\n\n IN AM ENDMENT\n\n\n\n Many humans last year\, 2020 \, and many humans this year\ , 2021\, are just like Robert Neville. From the beginning\, I said everyth ing will be alright last year. Not cause I am a mental expert or am wise  but cause I think toward the uncomfortable sometimes. I have learned to t hat through experience.  But most people were not communicating that exp erience. They were having the same inner monologues NEville had. Communica ting the same fears NEville had. \n\n\n\n My grand mother died\, my gran dfather died\, my mom died\, my father died\, my wife died\, my husband di ed\, my daughter died\, my son died\,my granddaughter died\, my grandfathe r died\,  the stores went out of business\, I lost my job\, I'm scared!  we need a vaccine\, we need social distancing\, we need masks\, we need re mote learning\, we need remote labor\, we need government assistance\, we need the businesses to reopen\, we need global trade to begin again\, peop le who don't act like me are stupid\, people who don't act like me are tra itors\, people who don't act like me are murderers\, people who don't act like me are dangerous... all of that talk is Neville speak. Neville is pre occupied with who has died\, what vaccine or scientific assessment or tool s he can derive\, how different the infected act compared to him. NEville has no thought that everything is alright. NEville can't simply live his l ife peacefully\, calmly\, unafraid. Why can't neville accept that if he ca n live with the virus absent masks\, absent vaccines\, absent anything eve n companionship\, that maybe others can too\, that maybe humanity can. The lesson in the story is what hollywood is too afraid to tell. what most in the paying audience\, which is not most in humanity\, are afraid to see. What if human technology or human communities all over the earth fail com pletely and humanity survives and thrives? \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n from Rich ard Murray\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n Original Post\n\n\n\n https:// aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1575&\;type=status\n\n\ n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210717 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR