You know, I was just sitting here, doing my work quietly, when I flashed back to a scene from one of the last Jeremiah episodes, in which Kurdy has begun training an army, and has his first group of recruits in a large room, in which stands a fairly tall wall. He tells the hungry group that, in essence, lunch is waiting on the other side of the wall. And only once everyone has climbed over the wall will anyone get to eat.
A couple of the bigger guys with attitudes take flying leaps at the wall, jumping and scraping to try to get up and over, but to no avail; it's simply too tall. They complain that the task is impossible, that Kurdy's asking too much of them.
Standing off to the side is the small, nerdy and idealistic guy they've all been picking on since they got there. He puts the question to Kurdy, "You said we had to get over the wall, right? But you didn't say we couldn't help each other."
"That's right," Kurdy replied.
Nerdy guy then proceeds to have two strong guys hoist two other strong guys up to the top. Between the four of them, they lift everyone in the group up and over the wall.
At the time I just thought it was a clever morality play about the value of teamwork and thinking divergently.
The more I think about it, though, there's a strong sociopolitical lesson there, too.
JMS, you rock.
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