Phenomenon: What's is Your Brains Untapped Potential

The movie Phenomenon starring John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, and Kyra Sedgwick is a movie that if it came out today would have been an instant hit just because of the stars in the film. But at the time of the movie John Travolta and Duvall were the only big names in the flick.

This movie encounters what can be perceived as paranormal. Travolta plays the character of George Malley who receives the special power of learning and knowledge. He reads a book and learns everything from it. He is clearly special, but the members of his town rebel against him. The ending does have an expected twist if you actually pay attention to the film. But the story line and character development are portrayed nicely.

One theme that shines through is that George Malley is an ordinary man. He knows he is just working in an area of brain capacity humans never have experienced.

This made me think. Do we ever use the amount of our brain which we can use? I feel sometimes we can short ourselves with how much we can use our brain. Especially in todays world where we are so media oriented and we don't push ourselves to actually think when a computer does it for us.

So will we actually get to the point when we don't even think anymore? That is something I legitimately fear for our future. I fear we will become like the people in Idiocracy. People who let the computers think and do everything for us. Leading to dust storms and starvation.

I don't wanna be part of the world that doesn't let us use our brain. I don't think any one else would either. I actually wish I could push my self to be like George Malley. Some one who has all the power to move objects and learn Portugese by reading a book.