Aeon Flux: Ether Drift Theory

Society innately believes its' ideals to be correct and exportable. Often, this is totally unjustified.

Trevor Goodchild's "petri-dish" of a civilisation becomes breached by exterior forces. The result of which is the utter destruction of all the life and achievements of this population. A haunting echo with past colonisation creeps forward from this catastrophe.


Monetarily and militiraily, powerful societies have had a tendency to forcefully export their own institutions, religion and attitudes. As Robinson Crusoe violated the untainted island, world leaders have enforeced their beliefs on virgin soil. This of course, is always implemented to the advantage of the originating country and government.

While "colonisation" is usually associated with the Age of Exploration, few things have changed since the fifteenth century. The Cold War opponents of the United States and Russia created puppet states to further their own ideals. In more recent times, the wars engulfing the middle east seem like an attempt by western forces to derail alternative world views. If such a perception of reality was truly "correct", people would naturally accept it, thereby negating this reason for war.

As Trevor's "perfectly balanced eco-system" crumbles into oblivion, we the sole survivors are left to consider the adverse effects of colonial attitudes.

-The English Student