I recently
saw the movie Looper, released in 2012, with Joseph Gordon-Levit and Bruce willis. See a brief descritopn here of the plot if you haven't seen it.
In the end
of this movie, there is a realization by the main character (Gordon-Levit) that
the future is programmed and he then makes a decision “to end this loop”. His
solution however is one of self-destruction, where he decides to take himself out
of the picture completely.
There are a
few considerations to this.
If we look
at the point in common sense – we see that yes he did stop a part of the
consequence of what he saw would happen in the future. But he did not see that
fundamentally this will not really have an impact on the future. It will not
change the future of humanity – which we see is already being depicted in the
movie as becoming more and more unequal and with more and more crime and violence.
So, in the
light of this, we can see that the Looper did not take self-responsibility but that
from an existential perspective he took the easy way out so that he could die
with a clean conscience – not considering the whole of the mess he is leaving
behind and for which he does not see himself as being responsible, which is:
all of humanity.
So what the
story in the movie is revealing is how we as human beings have a limited perspective on what responsibility means because we do not consider the
consequence that our life and our actions have towards the whole.
Now commonsensically
– when you kill yourself – you destroy your ability to have any form of impact
in the world. The point to realize is that as long you are here on earth, there
is a potential to change yourself and this whole reality to something that is
best for all. So, clearly our concept of self-responsibility towards the whole
is currently standing nowhere – because we would easily buy into a story where
suicide is considered responsible (regardless of the context) and a solution.
The truth
is that the only responsible thing to do is to start a process of self-change –
where one recognize that, yes, one is completely programmed, and if we continue
our programmed life-walk then the outcome of the collective is certain. We will
end up in greater inequality, more crime and violence and eventually, as all Hollywood
movies are so nicely showing, complete destruction. Yet within that realization
lies the possibility for change, where one decide to no longer accept and allow
oneself to be that program, but instead take responsibility for what we have
accepted and allowed ourselves to become and start living according to
principles that are best for all, just like Jesus did.
So, in the
case of the Looper, upon seeing the programmed future unfold – he had an
opportunity to make a self-honest decision, which was to stop his life of
self-interest (seeing who he would become as an enraged maniak) and become an example of what is best for all.
Obviously
this can only be done through self-forgiveness and writing and self-corrective
application – so the Looper still had an excuse as these things were not part
of his consideration, but the same cannot be said for you, the reader of this
blog... Here you are being offered the keys to self-change: self-forgiveness
spoken and written in self-honesty and self-corrective application, practiced daily
– in every breath – to stop your programmed nature of self-interest and harm and
to become the grain that will grow a future of definitive change.
If you had
an opportunity to stop your programmed nature (you know what I am talking
about, the exact same thoughts you have on a daily basis, the reactions towards
people you are unable to stop, the addictions you are a slave to) would you not
be curious to investigate? Would you not want to know that there is another
life possible?
Don’t
become a Looper – take self-responsibility for your Life, investigate the
Journey to Life blogs and the desteni forums. You will find many examples of
inspiring change and of what it means to stand up.








