Similarities Between Enlightenment And Thomas Hobbes

A very long time ago, there was a time when humanity had no rules. One could say that humanity wouldn’t even be considered humanity. This time period was ironically ruled by Charles Darwin’s idea of the Natural Selection. It was barbaric, and it was every man for himself. The idea of the Survival of the Fittest is that the strongest survive and then produce offspring with favorable traits that will go on to survive and so on. A side effect of Charles Darwin’s idea, is that living things do brutal doings to survive and live on. A little later in time was the Enlightenment Era. This era brought out many new ways of thinking, especially how a society of people should associate together within a social contract. Three famous Enlightenment
thinkers that came out of this era were John Rousseau, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes. Rousseau had a theory of power to the people.
The idea is that people represent themselves via popular sovereignty. They want everything can be fair and if the people need to alter a way the government is being ran, they can do so. The goal of his legislation is to protect the common good. John Locke had similar ideas to Rousseau. He believed people were born with unalienable rights. The three rights were life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He also believe if the government was not functioning in a correct manner, the people have the right to revolt. Thomas Hobbes was the most evil of the thinkers. Hobbes states that people are evil and greedy. It’s human nature for people to be power hungry. In the emergency of a zombie apocalypse, humanity would go back to its barbaric ways groups of people will be segregated and its every man for himself because they need to survive. If people were ever able to come together, they would be ruled in a dictatorship style of government. Therefore, it would be mass chaos and power hungry people that are doing whatever it takes to survive during a zombie
apocalypse. Thomas Hobbes ideas will come to life during a zombie apocalypse. People are going to be scared and will do anything to obtain power to survive. As a result of this, weak people are going to killed off fairly quick. The stronger are going learn how to survive and likely already bear favorable traits for this type of situation. That reflects back to Charles Darwin’s Natural Selection theory. If a social contract were to form, it would be a dictatorship. One group of people is going to be more powerful than others and are going to take over. The people underneath them have to do whatever the stronger group says to do if they wish to survive. They rely on each other, just in an evil way. Similarly to the introduction, men will almost go back their most primitive state. Men hunted to feed their families. They also killed to defend their families. Now, all the men and women are hunting and killing to help their families survive. It’s the survival of the fittest, the weak die off. Then with time, people will be well adapted to the environment after they’ve been born with favorable traits the suit the situation. However, people will still be killing each other trying to gain power. To sum things up, it’s evil.
Human nature is evil and nasty. Thomas Hobbes had known this all along. His ideas of thinking fit what would happen during a zombie apocalypse. In the second season of the television series The Walking Dead, the protagonist no longer have to worry so much about zombies. They’ve become pretty good at surviving against them. Their new threat now is other people that are doing their best to survive! Now, to gain power over these new set of threats, the protagonist must do whatever it takes to survive. Thomas Hobbes states that it’s human nature to love having power. He said people will be evil and brutish, just so they can obtain power. People are going to be killing one another once there’s a zombie apocalypse. They are going to form a dictatorship style government once the opportunity arises. Why would the strongest group of people not want to do that? Because they most certainly
can! In conclusion, there would be mass chaos and destruction on Earth if a zombie apocalypse were to happen. Many people would be killed, but not by just zombies. As Hobbes states, it’s human nature for people to be evil and brutish trying to obtain power.