Once this country was like a wild free salmon populated river,flowing unimpeded filled with migrating salmon.Now the river is polluted, blocked by dams, and the salmon are dying in stagnant pools filled with jumping carp and franken fish. To switch metaphors, the greedy pigs have taken over the farm. George Orwell's novel Animal Farm shows us just what this country has become. A nation with political leaders absolutely corrupted by power. Woody Allen said it best in his comedy Sleeper, " There are no political solutions". In Orwell's other great novel 1984 he points out what happens when when you give up your freedoms to feel secure. Now we just trudge along mindlessly,willing to pay outrageous gasoline prices,letting the government collect all our phone data, and giving our life savings to hospital C.E.O.'s who make millions on our illnesses. The sad part is that the big brother propaganda isn't coming from the government, it's coming from right wing radio and television millionaire shills for the rich. Huge groups of angry disaffected people find big brother hate distrust and lies a comforting panacea. It is always easy to blame the so called other. Blame the immigrant, blame the unions, blame the poor, blame everybody but those greedy rich who are really at fault. Everyone deserves respect in the workplace, a livable wage,and affordable health care. Instead of grabbing a little less the rich would rather send your job to Communist China. How do the younger workers without the bias of their parents become complacent pawns of the status quo? A. Huxley's novel Brave New World provides the answer,soma. Soma, in the novel is a tranquilizer used by those in power to calm the disaffected. Today we have I phones, video games,schlock reality T.V.,and social networking, nuf said.
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