Dr. Stone and the conflict of philosophies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXN5SGUSpzw - 18:29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv6bS0ASZps - 20:16

   In a section of my anime class that ended a couple of days ago, I had a student present the anime Dr.

Stone.  Like most students in this class, he presented about two short scenes from the series, as well as

explanations of these scenes.  Of course, the one scene was of one of the few fights in the series (the 

other was like an introduction), so I figured there was more to this series than those two scenes.  Upon 

looking more into this series with the help of the two videos in this reflection, I saw that there really 

was more that this series has to offer, which is a conflict of philosophies.

    The first video doesn't explain this conflict, but it talks about an interesting theory that led to this

conflict, which is seen in the second video.  Due to the petrification beam seen in the beginning of this

series (more like a light) that turned humans into stone for a long time causing the world to go back to

the Stone Age, which is explained in the first video, humans can either go back to where they started

or start anew in a new world.  Senku, or Dr. Stone, who happens to be the first revived human, wants

to go back to where humans left off due to his love of science.  The humans he revives agree with him

on this.  However, one of them, Tsukasa, can eventually start thinking for himself.  At first, Tsukasa

agrees to help Senku since Senku saved him, but after spending some time with Senku, realizes that

they are better off starting over in a new world instead of going back to a corrupt one.  This causes a

conflict between Senku and Tsukasa and their philosophies, which is explained thoroughly in the

second video.  The second season pretty much continues to focus on this conflict for the most part.  

Another brief one is introduced near the end with the character Hyoga, Tsukasa's former accomplice 

who actually had his own ideas of who to save, but Tsukasa and Senku team up after Senku outsmarts 

Tsukasa and helps Tsukasa save his sister in order to stop Hyoga.

     One thing that I would like to add to the conflict though is the theory explained in the first video.  If

technology really is behind the petrification of all humans and society to revert back to the Stone Age,

which I think is not only possible, but likely, due to the explanation, then that would make the conflict

between Senku and Tsukasa more interesting.  Despite technology not wanting to go back to the way

things were, as well as Tsukasa, Senku thinks this is still a good idea due to what he wants.

Apparently, Senku loves technology and science a lot, and believes he can save people with it like 

Tsukasa, who died as a result of fighting Hyoga, but not enough to know what it really wants, so this 

technology would side with Tsukasa, but most likely not his methods of how to start over in a new 

world and create another conflicting philosophy.

    Anyway, there are two definite conflicting philosophies in the series Dr. Stone.  Another one could

be possible, but that would be more of a conflict within one of the philosophies, which is most likely 

what the third season is going to get into based on the ending of the second season.