That was how it had always been, he could see now. For thousands of years mean had bled and died so that others might be chauffeured to their mansions. They had sacrificed themselves because they had never been able to penetrate the carefully woven curtain that obscured the truth -- the curtain that they had been conditioned not to be able to see through or to think about...
The inverted logic that had puzzled him had not been something peculiar to the military mind; it was just that the military mind was the only one he had ever really known. The inversions came from the whole insane system that the military was just a part of -- the system that fought wars to protect the peace and enslaved nations by liberating them; that turned hatred and revenge into the will of an all-benevolent God and programmed its litanies into the minds of chidren; that burned and tortured its heretics while preaching forgiveness, and made a sin of love and a virtue of murder; and which brought lunatics to power by demanding requirements of office that no balanced mind could meet...
For the curtain that was falling away was the backcloth of the stage upon which the dolls had danced. And as the backcloth fell and the strings fell with it, the dolls were dancing on. The dolls were dancing without the strings because there were no strings. There never had been any, except those which the dolls had allowed the puppeteers to fasten to their minds. But those strings had held up the puppeteers, not the dolls, for the puppeteers were falling while the dolls danced on.
from: "Voyage From Yesteryear" by James P. Hogan
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The sad thing is that we have reached Point Zero. America is a dystopia. Almost no description of a 'Brave New World' or 'The Giver' type of dystopia exceeds the things that are going on right now. TV and celebrity gossip appease the masses so they think they're happy while corporations grow fat on blood and thinking people are kept afraid because they might lsoe their health insurance if they speak out....
I figure we've got five years to reverse things before they get truly ugly. If the 2012 election doesnt produce a true candidate of the people, I think it'll be time for thinking people to pack their bags (lightly) and find a more hospitable place to live.
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