I think thereâs something so deeply and intimately and morbidly true about The Last of Usâs primary thesis which is that humanityâs fatal flaw, in that very Shakespearian way, is that we are destined to care too much about one another so much so that we discard the collective entirely. like we have such a capacity to love the human race and humanity as a whole, to grow our communities and govern cities how we know best and foster such connection with the masses which we are part of, but itâs overtaken by our capacity to love even just a single other person. like one human can come into your life that creates such an intrinsic and passionate love in youâ or maybe two people or a familyâs worth or any small numberâ and you suddenly would burn entire villages down just to keep them safe.
joel doesnât blink twice murdering to find ellie. he doesnât look back when he decides to do what he does at the hospital later on. he has no remorse about any of it it, because this one girl has grown to mean more to him than any possible greater good could ever mean. and itâs reciprocal. ellie wouldâ and doesâ do anything she can to help him, save him, protect him, and, eventually, to avenge him. because thatâs what you do when you love someone. not when you love people. when you love someone.
and itâs selfish, in a way??? because we love these people and would do so much for them because they mean more to us than other strangers do. itâs exactly like an iteration of the trolley problem, actually. one track has your daughter on it and one track has fifty people. donât even try telling me you wouldnât go onto track B if it meant saving your daughter and her puppy dog eyes from the whimpering and pain and fear. The Last of Us says yes, you would. I would. we all would. and like yeah that is our greatest weakness, that we have such a unique ability to love a handful of people so deeply that our compassion towards community and strangers and the bigger collective starts to slip from view. but goddamn what a fucking great fatal flaw it is to have. we are all going to die and the world will burn because we loved another person too much.
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