I loved the series Breaking Bad. I watched every episode with great detail in terms of the plots and dialogue. I wondered why I was attracted to this ruthless, manipulative and mean character. My conclusion is that Walter White’s life as a regular blow joe chemistry teacher with little power and little control over his life is the typical life most of us live. Going along with a bunch roles that do not work. A series of societal norms created by the powerful through out history to control the masses and rig the game in their favor.What do we do? we just follow them blindly with out questioning the why and the what. All these lop sided rules slowly kill peoples humanity, creativity, hope, self belief, inner autonomy and the excitement of living.
The consequence is large amounts of the population is dead walking at different levels of the existence. Walter White decide not to go along with society’s expectations of him and follow his own path. In the last episode he says he did all because it made him feel alive. Wow what a great line and revelation. In past episodes he had said that he had done it all for his family but in reality he did for himself for the sake of feeling alive. Now my question is: can you have the same feeling and experience by breaking good, following your own path in the opposite direction Walter White’s took. Become a warrior for what is right to the point of clashing with the establishment and becoming a Walter White of the new living model in which the game is fair, the planet is protected and individuality is sacred. I do not know, I wonder, cool to try it.
