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I weep, for it reminds me so...
Jul. 14th, 2003 12:27 amMy brother has written a book for literature class with three friends. They wrote from four different points of view - each of them took one main character - about a future world which consists, basically, of two states - the US and China. All other countries are either part of the US by then, or uninhabitable because of nuclear radiation or dehydration. It's a negative utopic story, telling of an invincible system controlling everything (exept China and few rebels, until - well, that would be a spoiler). It's all in all well-written, greatly plotted, terribly exciting, scary, astonishing, and very, very sad.
That's not exactly the point right now though. I'm just writing about this because of this "Tranquility Bay" thing (if you haven't read about it, you can here, for example: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,987172,00.html). Because, among other things, their book mentions the story of a young girl who, after being caught at having sex with another girl, is put into some sort of boot camp, where she dies, eventually. While there were no deaths mentioned in the articles (after all, since the parents pay for it, they'll watch out a bit), reading about Tranquility Bay still reminded me badly of this. (There was something else in the book about taking people's civil rights because they were made "person rights" and the definition of "person" was rather tight).
Anyway.
I doubt that a petition can change things. I'm afraid the only thing that might help would be making the chaperones and the inventors and the supporters of this camouflaged concentration camp (well, sorry, but that's what it looks like to me) inmates themselves; and maybe even that wouldn't help, what about stupefication and brainwashing...
Still, I suppose it's the only way at least to try and change things. So go there. Sign, if you didn't yet. http://www.petitiononline.com/130662/petition.html
Maybe I'm just being dramatic because it's late and I'm tired and I'm just freaking angry. Fuck, some people really don't deserve to be called human. Argh. This is a point of time where I want divine anger and lightning bolts hitting the responsible ones and waves swallowing their institutions.
I do have to second Fuchs - sometimes I wish I were powerful.
PS: This is the third parallel within one week. I begin to get paranoid.
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( Gewisse Parallelen )
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That's not exactly the point right now though. I'm just writing about this because of this "Tranquility Bay" thing (if you haven't read about it, you can here, for example: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,987172,00.html). Because, among other things, their book mentions the story of a young girl who, after being caught at having sex with another girl, is put into some sort of boot camp, where she dies, eventually. While there were no deaths mentioned in the articles (after all, since the parents pay for it, they'll watch out a bit), reading about Tranquility Bay still reminded me badly of this. (There was something else in the book about taking people's civil rights because they were made "person rights" and the definition of "person" was rather tight).
Anyway.
I doubt that a petition can change things. I'm afraid the only thing that might help would be making the chaperones and the inventors and the supporters of this camouflaged concentration camp (well, sorry, but that's what it looks like to me) inmates themselves; and maybe even that wouldn't help, what about stupefication and brainwashing...
Still, I suppose it's the only way at least to try and change things. So go there. Sign, if you didn't yet. http://www.petitiononline.com/130662/petition.html
Maybe I'm just being dramatic because it's late and I'm tired and I'm just freaking angry. Fuck, some people really don't deserve to be called human. Argh. This is a point of time where I want divine anger and lightning bolts hitting the responsible ones and waves swallowing their institutions.
I do have to second Fuchs - sometimes I wish I were powerful.
PS: This is the third parallel within one week. I begin to get paranoid.
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( Gewisse Parallelen )
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