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The Road Away From Dystopia
It’s pretty obvious by now we’re living in a dystopia. The question I’d like to ask you is what have you done in the past 40 years to oppose dystopia beyond casting the occasional vote for the lesser of two dystopias. If you’re like me, not a lot. It seems like we were all lulled into the belief that we could just sit back and let utopia happen, but it didn’t work out that way. It didn’t work that way at all. They told us if we just trusted the media and our leaders and the free market that life would continue to get better and better. And though I think I saw it more clearly than most, I still did nothing to fight against the coming dystopia other than to voice some tepid complaints and warnings.
We’ve all been stuck for the last forty years in a pattern that never worked, and it is becoming increasingly obvious that it never will work. The pattern is not producing a solution but is in fact the problem. So that’s good, you’ve come to realize that the problem is within you. Maybe it’s mostly outside of you but it’s inside of you as well. The problem that is outside of you wants you to comply, wants everyone to comply, and we have done just that for forty years or so. So it’s pretty obvious if our compliance has helped goosestep us toward dystopia, then non-compliance is the course we need to take if we wish to escape from it.