Monday, June 29, 2015

World War Z (Robben Island, Cape Town Province, United States of Southern Africa)

The interviewer meets with Xolelwa Azania. Azania is writing a book titled Rainbow Fist: South Africa at War. The book is about Paul Redeker, the very man the interviewer is here to discuss. Azania describes Redeker as not a very passionate man who says human biggest flaw is it's emotions. His papers dealing with "alternate solutions to historical, societal quandaries" brought Redeker to the attention of South African apartheid government back in the 1980's. They hired him to revise the "orange plan", a secret plan commissioned by white ruling class to deal with an uprising by the majority, but underprivileged, black population.  The interviewer asks about that last bit, and Azania points out that Redeker believed that saving everybody would be a complete waste resources and would everybody would be doomed. To ensure this wouldn't happen, he calculated to who to save and who should and who should not be saved. It was called Orange Eighty-Four and people hated him for it. Since the apartheid government fall, he went into hiding since he was not the most popular person. The when the Great Panic hit, some agents from the National Intelligence Agency found him and wanted if he was the one who wrote Orange Eighty-Four. First he thought they came to capture him for the Apartheid shenanigan but they wanted to know that how to deal with the zombie apocalypse. He had a simple plan that not everybody could be saved and they would have to create a safe zone, use mountains and rivers as obstacles. Evacuate the civilians but not all of them but only enough to supply with the labor force and to rebuild after the war. And everyone would thrown into the isolated zone to act as a bait. They would be resupplied when needed be, so that they could fight off the zombies and then safe zone people wouldn't have to deal with the zombies later. The NIA agents got offended with his plans but the former statesman Rolihlahla (Nelson Mandela) put the plan in motion and hugs Redeker telling everyone that his plan would save everyone. That was the last time everyone saw Redeker, nobody knows what happened to him. And days later, Azania was put in charge of the Redeker plan. After their talk, the interviewer goes to Robben Island Psychiatric Institution to meet with a patient. The name of the patient (GUESS WHO?), Paul Redeker

Relating to the context of the book, this chapter is very important to me because up til now, Paul Redeker was the only one who came up with an idea to save all of humanity (not all of humanity). Redeker viewed humanity with a very objective approach. He removed emotion from the scenario. This was easily done by him because he considered emotion to be humanity’s true flaw. So why would he care if a few people were sacrificed? They are just objects after all. To save the more valuable objects you have to sacrifice the ones that are unnecessary. 

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