The movie’s creator holds the thesis that the world inevitably changes, and it is better off as a result.
New generations continue to evolve and resisting their new ideas and attitudes is useless.
In a way we’ve lost our innocence, but with it we’ve gained… variety, and freedom to explore that variety. When we do, the experience makes us deeper, more unique and complex individuals. This leads to a world filled with more interesting people – people who are not afraid to be their true unique selves – because society expects that uniqueness rather than the black and white, in-the-box, stereotyped, inauthentic version.
I see this dynamic playing out in three phases. First, everyone is “black and white.” The community is homogeneous and cohesive.
Second, some change while others remain the same. The community is heterogeneous and incohesive. Think of water mixed with oil and very shaken up. In the years to come this change will be painful as individuals will change into and reveal that authentic version of themselves at different rates, as they did in the film. Some will inevitably resist the new outlooks – whatever they may be – but in the end, everyone will change or at least accept the fact that a large portion of society has changed and they are now a minority.
Third, diversity will remain, but cohesiveness will be restored as well. Like attracts like. The natural human drive to find others like ourselves and connect with them will cause migration and the formation of new communities. The advent of the internet and websites such as myspace will foster and speed this transgression. At first, these communities will be only digital (on the web), but as more and more people are empowered by websites such as ebay, a second wave of cottage industries will emerge. With these new small business and the mobility that the web-based model provides, an increasing number of individuals will attain the ability to physically join their digital communities. The water and oil will migrate and bond, and small pockets of highly unique communities will pop up all over.
The one-world, blending uniformity that Alexander the Great imagined will look more like swiss cheese, with the holes being the revolutionized, mini communities while the main body of the cheese will be marbleized like a colby jack although it will have thousands of different cheeses which have yet not found or coalesced with their mini community.
Even the minority of the “black and whites” will potentially gather to form their own community as well – imagine a Walt Disney throwback community where all the residents wish to live as their great grandparents did.
How would this happen? Imagine if a Bill Gates or one of the future founders of the next Twitter who has the wherewithal buys an entire town, or simply through recruiting only a certain type of employee to work at the headquarters ends up recruiting an entire town or even just a small neighborhood. Imagine if they had the vision and purpose to create it… anything is possible.
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