There is no paradise in the dead wasteland. Nothing other than the one you create and keep secure. The people of Kirkman's world had it better than us, even if they were on the same path of as the one we have taken. After the dead arrived, the whole scene turned to a Hell-On-Earth.
I get why Morgan is hellbent on trying to help people, because it is redeeming all bad from the past. Ricktator wasn't really a good man. He did do a lot of bad things to good people, and those deaths could have been avoided.
You look at the new female leader, Virginia and her Pioneers, and you see a lot of same things. The survivor of her oppression indicated that not everything is well in the Paradise Ridge gated community. In the past we how one of them had fallen to the mysterious Wolves, and it is likely that those places were more like a death camps than saving the people living inside.
Tom, in fact said, "I got lucky and then... unlucky. Water supply started to go bad. We couldn't grow food. The fence failed. The roof started leaking and we were ready to split before they showed up."
"They said it wasn't about today. It was about the future."
Well, the road to the hell is paved with the good intentions. I, for one, would be afraid of Virginia and her pioneers. There is no need to create a conflict. Yet, everyday the Fear crew put themselves out there in one ... or many.
Al put herself and Morgan in wrong place, when she lead them into the compound. Some people can be saved, others has to be left on their own devices until there is a way to do the other thing.
It surprised me that Al associated Pioneers to the Helicopter people. The map she found from the wall, didn't look anything like the ones we saw earlier. The evidence linking them together is circumstantial at the best.
When Al asked about "the helicopters," Virginia out-rightly denied it. "Helicopters?" She smirked. "We just got gassed." But, the way she is dressing and acting makes me think about another helicopter crew, the Trashlady.
Is it possible she's lying?
Morgan claimed that Virginia is living in the past, by trying to hold on to the community. I disagree. The way of being nomad is a way of life, but so is by living in the fortified communities. Without the gas you are forced to find a settlement, because at the end, the life on the road demands supplies.
It is nice that Grace doesn't live in the past, but she's actively preparing for the future. Just like Daniel. You got only one life and you have to live it. Giving it up is not the way to go. That is what Daniel was feeling after he heard the news about losing the oil field.
"Man," I'd said in Grace's shoes. "It's not like the only place in the States with the oil. Everything that you see around us was built by us. Everything you can see can be salvaged and reused. This isn't the end, just a bump on the road. Get over it."
When they got in the accident and broke the transmission in the moving truck, Daniel showed there is always light at the end of the tunnel. No situation is too demanding. There is always something that can be done, even if the greed got them in an unfortunate incident.
Nothing last forever. Not even learning from previous greed situation, because Daniel surely should have left the vinyl's in the truck rather than trying to haul them with him.
At the morning he wanted to listen them because he wanted to hang in the past and remember the good old times. Every moment you live on Earth should be one. You'll have to love yourself and your neighbours enough to keep living in the place. Together we can all make it better and then there is no room for the hatred.
"It is all right to live the life," as they sang. "It is all right to hang in the past."
Is Grace dying from cancer?