Fear The Walking Dead: Don’t trust the ‘glorious’ future

It seems a lot of people in this season of Fear The Walking Dead believe THEY will usher in some grand future. It makes me trust that idea less and less.

“Together, we can get from yesterday to tomorrow.” Those were Ginny’s words to Logan at the beginning of Sunday’s episode of Fear The Walking Dead, “Leave What You Don’t”.

After she introduces herself to Luciana, John, June, Sarah, Wendell, Rabbi Kessner, and the kids, it became clear that Ginny has lofty ideas that her groups expansion and “settling” of Texas (And, possibly, neighboring states as well) will lead to some grand future.

“Future”? Hmm…I feel like I’ve heard someone else talking about “the future” before, now, who was that?

Oh yeah! It was Isabelle, the pilot from CRM, a.k.a. the Helicopter Group.

Isabelle is the first person to give us a glimpse into the philosophy behind her mysterious group, who have abducted Heath, Rick, and God only knows how many other people.

What she revealed is that they believe they will “own the future”, in her words. This all sounds well and good, except their secretive nature, penchant for kidnapping, and policy of killing anyone they see as a threat to their anonymity makes them seem just a little bit more nefarious than Isabelle made them out to be.

And then, we have Ginny’s “Pioneers”.

Ginny talks a big game about helping people, Hell, her first meeting with Logan even sort of mirrors Alicia’s first meeting with Max and Dylan, answering Logan’s question about what she wants with “To help”.  But, her actions are not, necessarily, the actions one would typically think of someone so concerned with helping: She guns down Logan, Doris, and the rest of his crew the second he decides not to give her the spoils of Clayton’s oil field, explaining it away by saying her group “only eliminates what is nonessential”. That’s a very…convenient way of putting it.

Who would be deemed “nonessential” in Ginny’s view, and, how does she make that determination? Logan seemed pretty resourceful, and, pretty dedicated to the idea of helping people, yet, the moment he decided he didn’t want to force Luciana to make gasoline, Ginny blew him away! Methinks her method of determining when someone is “nonessential” is not the most impartial…

If you start to look at it, so many of the groups we’ve seen in The Walking Dead universe who go around preaching this idea of “the future” all seem to have one big flaw in common: They all seem to believe that the ends justify the means.

They all seem to think that, because they’re claiming to want to create a new future for humanity, that that gives them carte blanche to kill anyone who might impede the glorious future they seek to impose upon everyone else.

If Ginny’s pioneers follow this pattern (Which they already seem to be doing), don’t be surprised if we discover that, because Morgan’s convoy is too “small time” or because they’ve collected people Ginny’s deemed “nonessential” that they decide to either force Morgan to ditch the “nonessentials” (Maybe Grace because she’s got radiation poisoning, maybe Samora because of her OCD, who knows?) or, just decide she needs to eliminate them all outright.

I think the lesson here is this: If you see someone (Or a group of someones) telling you they’re going to lead you into some kind of glorious future, and decide that that justifies their brutality against those who won’t go along with them, they are not only someone not to be trusted, but, someone you should steer very clear of.

You can get to the future without them.

That’s all I can say about the groups in this season of Fear The Walking Dead that, for all their lofty goals, don’t seem as…benevolent as they present themselves. If you like this and want to find out similar wisdom, specifically rules to survive the zombie apocalypse, why not pick up a copy of my book, The Rules: A Guide To Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse! You can also get it at Amazon here, on iTunes here!