the omega man may now receive renew attention a a result of the current and third re make of the original story from which it derive and i be legend . whilst i be legend may well be more faithful to the original book and that text and however and be an unremarkable piece of escapist sci fi . whereas the omega man and use the story a a vehicle and develop it into what may now be read a an uncannily insightful analysis of latent undercurrent of late twentieth century culture . the omega man replace the rather puerile vampire theme with that of a reactionary cult of anti science . the epidemic that supposedly turn people into blood suck buffy beast in the original story be replace by a rather more believable illness of which symptom be aversion to light and insanity . a tv news anchorman and use the technology of mass communication that science have put at his disposal and be show a opportunistically exploit the biological disaster to create a religious cult that entirely renounce science and with himself a it head . aspect of this scenario reflect element within the hippy movement that be nearly contemporaneous with the movie making . the nascent luddite reactionary element that be in hippiedom have swell in prominence in the year since the movie be make and a the less harsh theme of sixty counter culture and libertarianism and the renunciation of top down political dogma and have evaporate . today and in the mature and even decadent technological society and the principal theme of culture and politics be a renunciation of science and the reassertion of mediaeval religious dogma . these two element frequently intertwine . whilst the environmentalist political dogma seek to dictate from above every aspect of everyday life for every citizen and the state have launch into a millennial conflict with renascent mediaevalist religion a it be express overseas in terrorist movement . see from today perspective and charlton heston depiction of the isolated and besieged man of science and dr neville and seem eerily evocative for the embattled minority of u who cling to the ideal of scientific truth that be now under attack . a in the omega man and we now see the mass medium that be a product of science use by that medium own opportunistic element to generate a hostility to science that they can then play to their own advantage . we have reach the point at which to dare raise the pseudo scientific nature of the dominant political ideology that be environmentalism be to risk be render an outcast and like neville . a far fetched fantasy adventure at the time of it make and the omega man now seem to have uncannily anticipate the major political theme of life in the early twenty first century . a truly prophetic parable of our time .