“Faith,” he answers matter-of-factly. “Let’s say, you’re the last man on Earth, and there was this opposing force of people threatening to wipe out the last remnants of humanity and progress. You know, the white people with the hoods and the white faces, I don’t remember their name [The Family]. They were trying to kill the original character, Charlton Heston. He who represented the last of humanity.
“I asked myself: What would I do? How much hope and faith would I have? Faith in God, faith in restoring humanity? Ever since I saw that movie as a child, it has haunted me. [In particular the scene] where Robert Neville the Heston character creates the serum, this antidote for this sickness. He was like this Christ figure and that has resonated with me over the years.”
“We’re heading in the direction of extinction, we’re killing ourselves and each other…This is where we’re headed: Man’s greed and lack for humanity. [The Omega Man] is definitely metaphoric and if we don’t heed the signs, this is were we’ll end up.
“We live in a society where we just consume. We just take. We live to consume, we live to take. We don’t operate on the concept of giving. When we go to raves or to holidays, we see it only as an opportunity to consume, but not to give input. [... ] The consumption of drugs at raves: That creates negative energy. You know, the techno culture is a positive energy, it’s a God-given vision, but we look at it in such a perverse way. We think about the weekend as just a chance to explode and self-destruct instead of going to participate in something that is higher as ourselves.
“We’re walking like zombies through our lives and we really don’t know what abundant life is about! ”
Omega will be preceded by a single release in March. Look out for the full and revealing interview with Robert Hood, coming to the FACT site next month.
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