We sit. What are we as a species? Are we just a society that capitulate to an overbearing tyranny, like a wold displaying submission? Do we just follow the pack? Rebellion is a common human trait. Many of us rebel against what we see as wrong or against our constitution.
What is rebellion? And what is freedom? Can any of us say we honestly know. Can we recite the true meaning of the words or just the dictionary definitions? Do we know the importance of those words? This is a question I have asked myself on multiple occasions when I view the news. I see so many willing and eager to surrender their rights for safety I wonder if they understand the long-term repercussions of their actions.
Over the past few years I have witnessed many acts of violence on American soil, each one a tragedy, each one an act of barbarity. Could these acts have been prevented? Maybe? But how much privacy and freedom must we give up to prevent random acts of savagery. Is the idea that these acts can be prevented a pipe dream? I find that the more freedoms we surrender in the pursuit of security the less secure we are. We are more in bondage as a nation now than we have ever been in our history, yet we experience more tragedy and fear than most generation before us. We live our lives in day to day terror waiting for the next horror to occur. Is that life? Or have we just become sheep, slaves to the shepherd?
Our leaders ask us to trust then while they rape us. Is this just? We try and usr the system to hold them responsible for their crimes yet the system is rigged and we are its victims. Elitism sits above us thumbing their noses at us while we suffer under their cruelty. They control our economy promising a trickle down system of wealth but all we receive in the end is crumbs, barely enough to survive. We are indentured servants to our elitist masters yet we act as though we are free. Are we?
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