Fear The Walking Dead, SROTW: Future In A Dead World

4) No One Can Control The Future

One thing we saw in this week’s Fear was Morgan being forced to give Riley back the key that Emile was hired to retrieve at the beginning of the season, which, presumably, is something Teddy thinks will spare him and his cult from whatever Hell he plans to unleash upon Texas and the Civic Republic.

…Of course, just because he and his followers have the key right now doesn’t mean that they’ll keep it, or even that his plans will go off how he thinks they will even if he does with it what he wants.

So many people, whether in a zombie apocalypse or not, have this belief that they can, somehow, control the future, even though the very idea is absurd on its face. People can’t even really predict what’s going to happen in the future. We can guess, maybe even make educated guesses, or try to make assumptions based on similar events in the past but truly predicting? Fat chance. So, what makes people legitimately think they can control what will happen?

Whatever the reason, people will do it, even the smartest and toughest of hostiles you encounter. Sooner or later, they will assume that things will go exactly how they planned and screw up. The thing about the future is: There will always be things that happen that people couldn’t predict or didn’t expect — More zombies will show up than estimated, something will draw them in a different direction, an escape route will be blown, weapons will fail, someone will freak out, or maybe, you will be the x-factor, and do something wholly different than what your enemies thought — and blow their plans to Hell. My point is: No one, no matter how much they think they can, can control what happens in the future, not even your enemies. They’re just as much a slave to what happens next as all the rest of us are.