Notwithstanding the fast progress achieved in technology and science fields, I am afraid the evolution of behavior seems to be a far point in the Humans' to-do-list.
News about current economic and political conflicts around the world remind me of it all the time. It is not the existence of the conflicts that surprises me, but the reason why they remain for centuries: human behavior.
I am passionate about movies since I was a child. What I like the most about movies is the possibility of observing how its characters behave when facing different conflicts throughout their journey. It seems to be quite simple, but it is not, taking into account the unfair competition among the parts that comprise a movie as a final product: famous casting, special effects, soundtrack, costumes, and others.
Human behavior in movies is as astonishing and predictable as in real life. In both cases, people tend to classify one's decision based on their own values and patterns, and not in the context instead.
The context is the key point to understand people reaction and choices in life and in novels, not the judgment. We cannot come to a conclusion without analyzing the whole context in which such decision was taken. The movie A Monster Calls, written by Patrick Ness from the original idea of Siobhan Dowd, brings up many examples of it, mixing a kind of tale and a terminal illness story novel lived by a boy and his mother, focusing on the way each one struggles with his/her inner fears about the day they must say goodbye. It is an interesting experience that invites us to put ourselves in children's shoes to be able to help them instead of classifying their behavior as good or bad. On the other hand, it seems that adults are still having children accidentally despite such a bunch of information available.
A corporate environment seems to be an effective context to observe a human behavior in action as well, playing distinct roles, reaching their extremes when they are put under pressure. No matter when in the human history it happens, the choices look the same. Downtown Abbey is a drama television series created by Julian Fellowes that perfectly shows the point of view of employers and employees; how they face their fears and fight for their dreams, overcoming any barrier no matter who will be affected by, for good or for bad purposes. Although the narrative describes labor relations at the beginning of the twentieth century, any similarity with current facts is not a mere coincidence. Anyone who has worked in a company may have had similar experiences like that nowadays yet.
Let us try to foresee the future by analyzing sci-fiction movies. Most of them highlight the value of power and individual interests, and how Humans remain fighting for getting them no matter how.
See the example of the 2015 movie Ex_Machina, written by Alex Garland. We can clearly realize that for developing a state-of-art AI Robot the efforts are not related to humans needs, but power and private interests above fair relationship, personal or professionally speaking.
Although they are some of the best movies, in my opinion, I do prefer not to believe in a future like those described in sci-fiction movies, like Elysium (the year 2154), written by Neill Blomkamp; the Brazilian series entitled 3% (unknown date hundred years from now), written by Pedro Aguillera; or like What Happened to Monday? (the year 2074), written by Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson. They are just some examples of many descriptions that drive our attention to how harmful the individualism and a selective system might be for Humans worldwide, in a company or in the society. Likewise, it may be an alert about how much we need improving our behavior and be ready to build a better future consequently.
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