I had to sort of shake my head this morning when I awoke due to a long dream. I know dreams can sometimes be pretty ridiculous, especially when you start describing them to people. You may hear conversations like, “Dude, so it was you, me, and my grandpa, who died five years ago, and we were on this boat but the river wasn’t water but some kind of pudding. Don’t ask me why. And my grandpa had this giant spoon and there were all these birds trying to fly away with the spoon…” and then it just goes on and on into more absurd details.
I will do my best to save you from that type of description. Basically, the dream was almost in grayscale (something that I am not sure I have encountered before). For some reason I was enrolled in some kind of class and I had to follow through with a research paper that required me to interview former President Bush, who now was an elementary school teacher. However, none of this is really relevant, so forgive me.
The main part of the dream that did some damage to me was at one point I received a card in the mail. Inside, it had a picture of a really adorable child (a girl to be specific). The card then asked (via two checkboxes) on whether or not you wanted this child to be killed. The words weren’t that literal, but I just can’t remember the text involved (and I know that dreams you’re not allowed to read due to which part of the brain is functioning). The concept of the card was that the government was conducting population control, and this was their new method: allowing general democratic practices to control the growing population of the world. Basically, do you want this child to live or not? If majority say yes, then the child lives and if the majority vote no, then away the child goes.
Obviously there are many flaws with this idea. One being that I cannot imagine people actually voting on the life of a child; especially how anti-abortion people are. But nonetheless, the general concept was disturbing enough. I think I take too much in from my waking life surroundings. I re-watched Children of Men again the other day, and a couple of months ago I read this article from the Guardian Unlimited that described a disturbing path we are taking for the future. I wish I had the links available, but after reading the article mentioned, I was on some blogs that had commentary on it. In them they provided links to actual interviews and documents that both the British and American government had about population control. There were actual quotes from military officials and congressmen that said that we need to wipe out at least 450,000 people a day and we will not have an over-population crisis come the near future. Other officials were supporters of this since they felt that this would help cure global warming.
I’ll go onto my work computer and look at its Internet history to find those links; that way, you don’t think I am too crazy. Anyway, lets hope those cards do not come to our doorstep.
I will do my best to save you from that type of description. Basically, the dream was almost in grayscale (something that I am not sure I have encountered before). For some reason I was enrolled in some kind of class and I had to follow through with a research paper that required me to interview former President Bush, who now was an elementary school teacher. However, none of this is really relevant, so forgive me.
The main part of the dream that did some damage to me was at one point I received a card in the mail. Inside, it had a picture of a really adorable child (a girl to be specific). The card then asked (via two checkboxes) on whether or not you wanted this child to be killed. The words weren’t that literal, but I just can’t remember the text involved (and I know that dreams you’re not allowed to read due to which part of the brain is functioning). The concept of the card was that the government was conducting population control, and this was their new method: allowing general democratic practices to control the growing population of the world. Basically, do you want this child to live or not? If majority say yes, then the child lives and if the majority vote no, then away the child goes.
Obviously there are many flaws with this idea. One being that I cannot imagine people actually voting on the life of a child; especially how anti-abortion people are. But nonetheless, the general concept was disturbing enough. I think I take too much in from my waking life surroundings. I re-watched Children of Men again the other day, and a couple of months ago I read this article from the Guardian Unlimited that described a disturbing path we are taking for the future. I wish I had the links available, but after reading the article mentioned, I was on some blogs that had commentary on it. In them they provided links to actual interviews and documents that both the British and American government had about population control. There were actual quotes from military officials and congressmen that said that we need to wipe out at least 450,000 people a day and we will not have an over-population crisis come the near future. Other officials were supporters of this since they felt that this would help cure global warming.
I’ll go onto my work computer and look at its Internet history to find those links; that way, you don’t think I am too crazy. Anyway, lets hope those cards do not come to our doorstep.
2 comments:
We could also, just, I don't know. Have less children. That'll help too, right?
See, that was one the reasons on why this concept wouldn't work. I think people would startegize on contraceptives rather than infant executions. Although, this current administration doesn't even promote contraceptives; they would focus instead on abstinence.
The links that some of the bloggers, I was reading, had quotes from certain politicians. One of the congressmen who proposed the killing of 450K people a day, the blogger noted that this congressman was the father of 7 kids. The blogger then asked, "Well, he seems to be enhancing the increase in world population. Will he be putting his 7 kids in that 450,000 count?"
Good question!
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