Ecco park a review episode 8.
Ecco park is an interesting episode to end on and I admit
that I did skip a few episodes that are mostly marking for other podcasts but
it really does make you think this series as it is set in a world that we are approaching
very closely and to me is very reminiscing of disability intuitions for the
clones they where prepared for the outside world but at the same time they weren’t
and it is where we see a lot of what if questions start to arise.
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These questions are what is ethical to do how is it ok to
choose your children if you could, and what would you do if you could take over
another person’s life and get away with it?
Where does addiction come from, and how to deal with it, it
is a thriller in the fact that we see it could be very easily happening with IVF
babies and the increased screening for genetic defects and potential disabilities,
and around the right to life movement, and we see a very interesting question around would it be
better if that person never suffered in the first place and we see that this is
something that people with disabilities razing questions about the right to
life movement.
As well as all the time and we need to remember that not
only are people born with disabilities they can also become disabled, and this
is a really thorny question of how do we tackle the right to life issue and who
can make this decision for people who have profound disabilities, in a way that
is sensitive to people who don’t want to acknowledge that people with disabilities
can have a rich and fulfilling life and that there self-worth isn’t based on their
economic worth and productivity and therefore it has the thorny question of
well who decides who is worthy of life.
We see that it has alluded to that they are still
experimenting on clones, and what effects this has on the general community. It
leaves on a cliff-hanger that it is revealed that they are still experimenting
on the clones and it leaves the door open to if they are still creating clones
and how many are still out there.
This leads to a
discussion on real world issues when a
couple goes thought IVF what happens to the embryos’, and is it ok to discard
them and how.
There is some set ethics around this but this is intrestesing
as these aren’t “born” per say they are clones. So as we see in one episode the
creative directors admit they are exploring the nature vs nurture side of
things and what happens if Nature wins out as we see that there are several,
batches of Clones that even the clones didn’t know existed, in the retreat.
As we see that there was “S[i]ources”
what the Ecco’s call there source
materials and they call the clones Ecco’s in that we see that people have polite
words or what are person would call a euphemism about the clones and we see
that they have there own culture around being an Ecco or a clone and some meet
there sources but others don’t.
We also see and this mirrors real life what happens when people
start with great intentions advocating for a cause but it starts to back fire
on them so what would happen if they weren’t prepared for the life outside
there facilities, what they called the Retreat, we see that some call it a religion and respect the beliefs but
we that this has also in some clones that where sequester away from the other
clones so they don’t have the same experiences even though they where at the
same facility, they where kept away from the others due to the fact that they where
more aggressive in their traits, as they had there genetics altered in a way
that predisposed them to anger and this lead to some clones being more predisposed
to becoming an extremist.
We also see that some regular folks and source’s see that
the clones deserve what they have been given for housing and life skills, which
is similar to life skills training for people with a disability. But it has
bread resentment around some sources that don’t want to acknowledge that the
clones have been through a lot of trauma and some have more extremest views than
others and we see that even the clones have been lied to as well, and this begs
the question when is it ok to lie to protect others? This then leads us to the
question of what lies are ok to begin with and if the person needs to be
protected from the truth do you have a
duty of care to tell them what is happening and to deal with the consequences as
they arise? Also, what consequences are
likely to happen as we see that an Ecco killed her source and took over her life
as we see systemic classism at play in this area. As we see that the sources apartment has background
checks that the eccos are designed to fail, and we see that James is lucky that
he lives with his parents and who are both very high achievers and we see that
when they discover a thumb drive he has information about the eccors that were
kept in the sequester part of the retreat we see that it is discovered that
they are still being experimented on, and didn’t know it.
sympathy know what is happening to them in a way that they
can understand, this leads us back to duty of care in a way for people with disabilities
as there is too sides to this coin and one is that, people have a right to be
cared for and to not be exploited but at the same time people have a reasonable
right to take risks in there life so we see that this is where the retreat in
the podcast was more for the sources protection than their own as if they met
there source what would happen and we see this is something that people need to
be aware of so it begs the question what needs to happen in a way for people
with disabilities to be accepted into society or are they better being cared
for in what is essentially an instruction but has caught up with modem thinking
a group home or Sil house in Australia, as
even I know that I need support to life of normality and to have a “good” and meaningful life so
this leads us to what is a good life and what is meaning full life so is it experiences
or is it something that is harder to explain something that people need to be
aware of in that people are able to understand what is happening to them, and
how it is happening to them.
What they need to do is something quite interesting as they
are clones and they all have different expenses of being at the retreat we see
that they formed a religion called the circle and which has its own rules and
some believed that they should meet their sources and completely integrate into
society and others believed that they should live in society but not fully integrate,
and this is where ythan Austral but it does exist to some extent is police brutality
as we see that James is a civil adviser to the cops and is a lawyer, so we see
that people are sympathetic to the plight of the clones but we see that they at
the same time need to be accountable for their actions and understand that
actions have consequences and what consequences are happening to people as well,
so we see that people need to be aware of what can happen if they do the wrong
thing.
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