INFERNO

Who says that overpopulation is not a threat to this world? Well everyone except Dan Brown. I say what a story! For the first time in history (as far as I know), a novelist have tried to write a story concerning the most life-threatening disease of all time, OVERPOPULATION. It may seem as a complete non-sense to talk about population. People of this world don’t care if the world will be flooded by not water like the Atlantis, but by its own terrorists.

        Well at least the book doesn’t directly attack the Christian religion like the previous ones but the religion is still involve, or should I say the word of the Lord. It is in the bible that the birth of a child is the happiness of a woman and the society and that you cannot enter the heaven of the Lord without being a child to Him like His own son, Jesus Christ. A child is a gift to this world. Indeed we are gifts of this world and I say I am a daughter of the Lord and a sister to Jesus Christ. But can the Lord my Father blames me to ask Him if the population is now too densely for the world He created to hold? I say yes He can blame me in questioning it for that is the main reason why were born, to reproduce and let the newborns eye to enjoy the sight of the world He have given to us.  But can He tolerate that the world He created are now being flooded by dense people gradually submerging in the underworld? I guess He can’t. Yes He wanted us to live but overpopulation is a serious case to humanity.

          And that is a reality Dan Brown saw. He once again used the character of Robert Langdon to disseminate to the world the problem of overpopulation. Though he have used judgmental words against a country, I say this story is great wherein he implanted the work of Dante Alighieri, the Inferno the stage of passing hell towards the paradise. He has used abstractly the Inferno in relating to the real problem. Even though the story was devilish, a plague that will be released to erased 1/3 of the world’s population. I say I hated the fact that he as well discriminated my own country as he described it as “the gates of hell” and that the Philippines is the most densely populated country in the whole world. The fact that he pointed out the malicious side of the country, from all the crimes surrounding the land to gangsters of raping a foreigner, Filipinos have hated him. But after analyzing the story a bit more, I came to realize one thing even though I do not know if I and Dan Brown have the same interpretations of his masterpiece.

         As far as I am concern, Dan Brown has used the Philippines as a medium to let the world open their eyes on the adverse effects of overpopulation. I believe he used the Philippines in the manner that this country is not the only country which has these kinds of evil crimes but each of all the countries have their hideous mysteries. I want to believe that the Philippines and all countries have another face, the face of peace and unity.

        But I love how Dan Brown manipulated again the story words cannot actually express how marvelous it is. That is why he is my inspiration. The manipulation I have in the stories I have formulated (but not written yet) was based on the playful mind tricks of Brown. In the story, especially at the end, you don’t need to kill people just to lessen the population of this world; sterility can be of choice as well. If the program of the World Health Organization cannot work because of the influence of the Christian religion like Sex Education in all schools and communities and the use of contraceptives as a part of the Family Planning method; then a pandemic disease can do the work, infertility or sterility. Though the solution is a bit harsh, if people will not understand the importance of birth control methods, then the least they will expect from the concerned citizens of this world about population is releasing a deathly method.

        And that for me, is the main reason why Inferno is published, to open the eyes of humanity on the serious threat of overpopulation and to make them realize that the plans of WHO is for their safety and of this world. This is as well to enlighten the Christian religion about the method of science of securing the safeness of the world. I hope the world is reading this now and I hope that this will help us to understand the nature of humanity.