Re: Paradise Lost???
Chapter #14<br />The people, in their naivete', really believed that the means of revolt were to be found in a piece of inanimate metal! Really it was laughable... and pathetic.<br />No, the rulers knew that the people could safely be trusted with arms. The government educated their children, provided for their retirement in old age, bequethed assistance if they lost their jobs, mandated that they recieved health care, and even doled out food and shelter if they were poor.<br />The government was the very air the people breathed from childhood to grave. Few could imagine, let alone desire, any other kind of world. <br />To the extent that the people paid any attention to their system of government, the great mass spent their days simply clamouring for more or better "programs", more "rational" regulations, in short, more of the same. The only thing that really upset them was waste, fraud, or abuse of the exsisting programs. Such shenanigans brought forth vehement protest demanding that the government provide their services more effeciently, danmnit! The nation's stirring national anthem, adopted long ago by men who fought for their liberty, ended by posing a question, in hopes in keeping the spirit of liberty alive. Did the flag still fly, it asked, over the land of the free?
