757 Words for July 17th

I have decided that I am going to get away from the doom and bitching about my past. It's not fruitful to dwell on such things. Maybe I'll just go on about the book that I am attempting to write. It's nothing more than an idea of a mostly fictional, slightly autobiographical novel. Come to think of it, I don't think that's a half bad idea. Let's start with Chapter One.

I believe that dwelling in the past leaves us there, but not remembering it causes us to relive it. It's all quite simple, really. If we think in ways of constant progression, forgetting all of our accomplishments and losses that got us to this point, we are more than likely going to continue in a constant, downward spiral towards somewhere we have been before. That can be actually and metaphorically. Maybe, even metaphysically.

And that, my friends, brings us to where we are. Currently, we are told about change, and how things are changing, and how to change things that need to be, etc. I really don't mean to be political, but I think that this is a perfect example of spiraling towards where we have already been. In the past fifteen to twenty years of life in the United States, we have lost many of our "inalienable rights." Maybe lost is the wrong word. They aren't completely gone, just gravely whittled away.

Along with our tattered rights, we are constantly inundated by key words, like "change." It wasn't just Obama who has these. Bush did, too. The current issue is more of a look towards the days of the German Worker's Party, Socialist Nazi Germany, the USSR, Stalin's rhetoric, bread lines, and all the other great things that come with an ill directed socialist society.

Don't kid yourselves, kids. We are always days away from becoming a completely Socialist society. Good bad, or otherwise, I honestly believe that Obama is a good guy, who is smart, with a good heart, that is in the right place. I, however do not agree with his policies. I disagree with those policies even more when I think about what is possible in the future. Look at it this way, Obama could create the Great Socialist Utopia, complete with socialized medicine, food, shelter, breadlines, the whole nine yards. He could be so great that we repeal the twenty-second amendment, and he could serve longer than FDR, maybe until death. Then the Catholics could canonize him and the world is better off. Here lies the issue, who comes after him? Someone as great, or someone with ill intentions. Someone who could take this Socialist Utopia and turn it into something closely mirroring George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

What then? Our fucking rights were completely obliterated to create the utopia that you all wanted. There's no protesting. The first amendment was repealed after you guys got your fucking Fairness Doctrine. You have no right to assemble, no freedom of speech. You'd be lucky if you make it through all of this with a freedom of religion. I really wouldn't doubt us moving toward a Chinese style of state, where you are not allowed to express your religious freedoms. Another possibility would be that after all of the Muslim extremism, people may be afraid to practice religion outside of their own houses, out of fear of being ridiculed our blown-the-fuck-up. All of this is possible, even with the first amendment's statement of no official state religion.

Fear. This is how the government has enslaved us and has kept us that way. It is only going to get worse, my friends. We can preach about the internet and how it frees us, but lets be honest. How many heads of government (including the United States) have been given what equates to an Internet Kill-switch? Oh, do you slaves want to speak out against me/us? The internet is shut off for a later determined amount of time.

Piracy. Another nifty meaningless keyword that our governments like to throw around. Vice President Joe Biden equated internet piracy to a smash and grab. Though I am against piracy, and I do see it as theft, I have a hard time drawing the same lines that he has. With internet piracy, there is no vandalism. He's making it sound like it's a fucking hold up, and people are shot, and real destruction and physical damage is occurring. Is he fucking retarded? Do our government officials actually hear themselves, as the falsehoods pour out of their mouths, like diarrhea?