Sigma is a story based on the real-life "Bilderberg Group".
Sigma is an elite group formed by various prominent people shortly after the Second World War. This corporation would channel vast sums of money into fighting communism... and strengthening the will of the WEST. Sigma, manipulated world events (coups in Asia, stepping down of politicians) and bankrolling political parties.
There was this guy named Mengele a Nazi scientist who led the expirements over Zyklon-B, along with Strasser(fiction) and Lenz(fiction) .But, mind you, Zyklon-B is not fiction, it exists and it was in fact the gas that was used to kill hundreds of Jews in history. { One thing I like about Ludlum is the use of certain history facts and weaving a story based on this}
These Nazi scientist all thought that Zyklon-B is an elegant project and they all thought they were helping mankind....
As to why it was called elegant and to know what their views are... Let's interview Strasser.
{ Note: Conversations are actually found in the book... but some words were altered to achieve this kind of convo. }
Strasser: Before Zyklon-B, Hitler's soldiers had to shoot every prisoner. Terrible bloodbaths. Gas was so clean, simple and elegant. And you know, gassing the Jews actually spared them.
Uh huh... But.. how could it have spared them???
Strasser: There were so many deadly diseases that went around those camps, they would have suffered much longer, much more painfully. Gassing them was the most humanitarian option.
Could it be really? To have them gassed is humanitarian ? o_O
Strasser: We called it the "special treatment".
This could mean your "collateral damage" for extermination then?
Strasser: If you wish. But you know, I didn't hand pick victims for the gas chambers like Dr. Mengele or Dr. Lenz. They call them the Angel of Death.
What about you? Are you not? Or would you say you were just a scientist?
Strasser: What do you know of science? Are you a scientist? Do you have any idea how far ahead of the rest of the world we Nazi scientists were? Do you have any ideas? They criticize Mengele's twin studies, yet his findings are still cited by the world's leading genetics! The Dachau experiments in freezing human beings - those data were still used! What they learned at Ravensbruck about what happens to the female menstrual cycle under stress - when the women learned they were about to be executed - scientifically it was a breakthrough! Or maybe it's not polite to talk about it, but you still use our sciences. You'd rather not think about how the experiments were done, but don't you realise that one of the main reasons we were so advanced was precisely because we were able to experiment on live human beings?
Sometimes, we are all so bent up in blaming them but they did bring about scientific breakthroughs gruesome as it may sound. Because, they have brought about a lot of scientific breakthroughs which have proved to be useful in the next century.
But, still... to bring about harm to other people for what? For what we call science?
Sometimes there are things so hard to grasp. Such as this. I kinda understand the scientists, yes... but the way they conducted their experiments.. is just too much.
Did "the end justify the means"? or Did it not ? Would it be a matter of choosing the lesser evil ?
Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona? { For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous ? }
I think everyone is right given their own model of the world. Hitler thought he was doing good for the German people.... and so he thought he was right. What's really awful was HALF OF THE HUMAN RACE BELIEVED HIM. If I say the world is flat.... and half of the world believed me.. It would'nt be that crazy.
Maybe it really depends on what model your world is.... Because in the end there would be no rights or wrongs. It is just a matter of expressing who you are.
In this world of contradictions..... of ironies.... of relativity.... the question you have to answer, was the one what Shakespeare asked:
To be or not to be.
Even Peter Parker was baffled with who HE is.... but in the end he have to choose... would he be just Peter Parker? or would he be "who" he was meant to be?
He asked: WHO AM I? A lot of times... maybe in the movie we heard it only twice.. once when the movie started..and another when it ended. He answered he was Peter Parker.... but in the end when he asked.. WHO AM I? He answered I'm Spiderman.
We all come around with choices to be WHO WE ARE.... but once you choose who you want to be... the WHO YOU ARE NOT challenges you all the time..
are you LOVE? *then all your life you would face people that would express it's opposite*
are you a HEALER ? *then you would be in a place where sickness thrives*
are you a PROVIDER? *then you go to the needy*
are you the LIGHT ? *then you will be placed in Darkness*
After choosing who you are... there would be SACRIFICES. CHOICES. and of course meeting your DESTINY... whatever it is you choosed to be.
but then always remember.... the greatest battle LIES WITHIN.
I never meant to end this post plugging SPIDERMAN 3 but what I just talked about ended with SPIDERMAN.. because there's really truth behind that movie. Kinda related. Specially with the "to be or not to be". Spiderman faced that question. He was asked to choose countless of times and he was able to stand up with what he believes in and even Spidey tried giving up. S
Sometimes, we feel like giving up. In the quest of doing and manifesting who we are.... we sometimes give up... because we THOUGHT that the CHALLENGES are GREATER than US. But truth is.... WE ARE GREATER THAN THE CHALLENGES.. and I tell you there is no challenge... we can't overcome.
