Tuesday, November 23, 2004

 

I wondered what it would be like to live in an Orwellian society, and with a list of items ticked off to remind me exactly how we have allowed ourselves to be governed by thought police since our original birthdays I found that we not only live in an Orwellian society, but most of us welcome it.

Some people people call it a radical idea, and throw it away as part of a paranoid delusion. Conspiracy Theorists are nuts. Why should we listen? On the other hand, aren't there enough people in your city who live a life in fear? or impoverished to the level that they are working from day to day and only making enough money to get to the next paycheck? imagine that life only existed two weeks at a time, and if you didnt work enough during those two weeks, life as you knew it ended. Even worse, that you had to consider living on the street, or in your car. Some people who are reading this know folks who have to live this way. I certainly do. And who do we look to for salvation?







The good people in Orlando, Florida have a Clear Channel billboard to remind them that we have George W. Bush to thank for some of the worst decisions made by an administration, resulting in an ever widening gap between our nation's poor and our nation's rich. The result of his re-eletion will be the appointments of conservative judges to the Supreme court, there will be an increase in the loss of our privacy by way of the Patriot Act 2, there will be more war on terrorism (not to be confused with the war in Iraq which is its own separate war that is part of the war on terrorism which may include North Korea and Iran someday making it a world war on terrorism or maybe just a holy war, christians versus muslims), and there will be even more of our nation left in the dust as the powerful folks we call our leaders sit in plush offices laughing, golfing on their many days off, checking out their numbers to make sure everything is falling in line, etc, etc, etc, etc...

A constant reminder that we the people have a new president in town, or rather, we have the same old president. It reads "Our Leader," when in fact it should read "Get Used to It."

posted by Hog 8:25 AM