This article is something different—a vision of what could become a bleak future without hope and resilience. Rather than a rehash of sad propaganda media, this is more a lesson of the importance of hope and faith.
The 1997 film The Postman—perhaps more pertinent to current/future America than ever before—is a rare fictional narrative involving a civilizational cataclysm that contains a positive ending with a valuable lesson to be learned.
Worthy of a quick review, if for no other reason than the positive lesson it contains, the film offers a message of hope that changes people in positive ways with encouragement to rebuild their destroyed society.
This from wndnewscenter.org.
This 1997 post-apocalyptic action film set in the near future based on a 1985 novel of the same title by David Brin tells the story of Gordon Krantz, a wanderer over the former United States devastated by war, disease, and lawlessness.
Small, isolated communities of survivors eking out a living formed in various areas of the country, and Krantz would wander among them, performing scenes from long-forgotten Shakespearean plays in exchange for food, water, and shelter.
With the breakdown of law and order, technology, and civilization, over time one or more neo-feudalist warlords would arise. They continually threatened surviving communities because they would plunder their scarce resources and seize their people as recruits for their armies.
Krantz, on a cold, rainy night, came upon a long-dead postman’s mail vehicle. Taking his uniform for warmth, he spent the night in the vehicle. The next day, he buried the postman and left with his bag of mail for the nearest community, hoping to trade it for food and shelter.
When the people in the next town saw him in the postal service uniform and he was able to deliver a letter to one of the elderly residents, they believed that he was a real postman from the restored United States government. This filled the people with hope that things would start to turn around and civilization would return.
As word spread about Krantz and his work, hope grew among the residents of the scattered communities across the land. More postmen were commissioned by him—and others were commissioned by them—to deliver the mail and spread the word about the restored United States.
The warlords, wanting to maintain their power, did all they could to destroy Krantz and the work of his followers by hunting and killing them, but through the increasing communication and growing unity of the no longer disconnected communities, their tyrannical rule was defeated.
Krantz continued his work as a postman, and the conclusion of the film showed that he and the postmen he commissioned helped to rebuild the United States.
The good news believed by people in isolated communities gave them hope and enabled them perseverance even as they experienced deprivation and danger from their enemies. It connected them with other communities and strengthened them as they spread the word.
The symbolism in this film could be interpreted many different ways, however, politically, I see the warlords as the communist/globalist crime syndicate, Krantz as Donald Trump, and the fellow postmen as We the People of the MAGA movement.
Further, the theme is reminiscent of any great story ever told:
[O]ne that is quite real and includes a great tragedy and widespread ruin, a message of hope, a [s]avior, a magnificent conclusion, and the restoration of all that is good.
Just as the postmen of Gordon Krantz delivered good news and hope, bringing isolated communities together to rebuild a ruined country, so too the greater hope of We the People is encouraged and strengthened as we look to the MAGA movement and the return of President Trump as the shining light off in the distance and the rebuilding of our diminished nation into everything he promises it will become.
God speed to President Trump and to the Take Back of our Constitutional Republic.
