"and the New York Times said God is dead, and the war's begun..." - Elton John
As the government continues to create discontentment while moving forward into the future and assimilating various services in the corporate and private sectors, I can't help but think of utopian societies.
Our writers in the science fiction genre have already called technology ahead of time, cell-phones, computers, bluetooth devices that we have now that did not exist twenty years ago. Maybe they can call the outcomes of some of our decisions as a nation and as a species.
1984 (George Orwell) - a book dedicated towards showing a negative vibe illustrated through people that are forced to live in a Utopian society, "Big Brother" is a major phrase utilized in that book. The main character in the final chapters is faced with his biggest fear in a cell, his head in a box with rats.
A Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) another book dedicated towards a utopian society, the idea of free- thinking a forgotten relic of the past, suffering and the grayness of life creeping into the writer's voice. You must live the book to understand the inherent death of thought.
Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) - I know, this is a more recent book, showing a little color where the previous two did not, yet there is suffering and mindlessness in those that cannot survive without relying on the GOVERNMENT. Yet they wish they could.
So here, among the dregs of a tumbling empire, the United States of America continues to try and grow a government conceived by men that believed in a smaller government that feared the people. Those civil servants were elected because of their strong moral fiber and ability to govern and encourage their people towards the right path. Those people then created a way of living through their own free thought, and others flocked to their cause to perpetuate that thought.
Here in the depths of our power as a country, there is a gray fog across the cities and countryside, rain clouds black and saturated with dirty toxins meant to corrode our mental states. Like a virus, we are mindlessly pushing forward in an attempt to create the "perfect world."
There is no such thing, children. In a perfect world there is no pain, and if there is no pain, then there is no life. NO LIFE. Yet we push for the government to control things more and more, becoming the "Big Brother" our parents and ancestors feared. Why not bring back a monarchy? Then one individual can decide the fates of the rest of the people.
Here at the beginning of the end, yes we are starting with health care. This has pushed us towards a police state, a government controlled country. Our popular votes have gone towards a man that had every opportunity to forge a better place with patience and wisdom, yet he spent his time moving us towards the edge of democracy.
Fear. It is becoming a permanent aspect of our lives. The three books I noted, they have a lot of fear in those pages.
Is all of this President Obama's fault?
