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Mnemonics For Antiquity: Part One

Prefer The Leader Who Comes To You --Ugandan Proverb If you look at almost any apocalyptic or futurist film you will almost always see the same plot, or rather, a familiar script, which will allow the world and its selected survivors to continue on thus insuring the world survives.  We are usually presented with some sort of catastrophe caused by war, a natural phenomenon, or of lives led, en masse, which caused such a great imbalance that people (except the strong ones), where unable to overcome. Various, and seemingly random, people come out from rubble, dusting themselves off and searching for other survivors. We will then be introduced to one man, (it's almost always a man and he is usually White as are most of the survivors). It will be immediately known by the viewer that this man is the leader and has the answers to every ones survival. Normally, without question, everyone follows his instructions. He tells people what to do, how to store food and when it is to...