The War You Don't See

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by jumpy

Some of you might laugh or say 'so what? the world is a rough place, what do you expect?'. Well for a start, having the hypocrisy of government acting in our name revealed for what it is - to be 'accountable to each other' (to quote the film). It would be a good place to begin, but beyond that I have no more answer than you, other than to say 'it should be better than it is, and if we give in to the reality as inevitable and unchangeable, then we are lost to it'. We don't live in '1984' but sometimes I do wonder how close we really are to it.

I believe we are dangerously close to fullfilling the warnings that all the great thinkers of past warned us about (like Bradburry with Farenheit 451 or Orwell with 1984) and just now starting to realize what we have let happen. Many writers/philosphers/historians knew what could happen, and we still can't seem to learn from our own mistakes.

After 9/11 some people summized that in order to "feel safe" would require us to give up some of our liberties and rights in order to allow the safeguards to be put into place to help try and prevent future events. I agree to a certain degree that this is true and necessary, though the government doesn't seem to think it has to stop and continues to trample over our rights and is trying to "do our own thinking for us" instead of us having to expend the energy to think on our own.

Even though we live in two different countries I believe one truth applies to both - The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants [Thomas Jefferson]. While I wouldn't advocate something as extreme as civil war, we the people have become far to complacent as a group and just now starting to wake up to what history has been telling us for past several hundred years. We've let big brother grow and grow to become more real now than ever before; which scare the crap out of me; and other's still don't see it. Pretty soon I'll begin waiting for my own telescreen to be installed in my place for my own protection, and wait for my turn to go into room 101.