By the way, lest you think my previous post was pure bullshit:
"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."
Albert Camus
"Fiction reveals the truth that reality obscures."
Jessamyn West
Are you going to argue with Camus? Give me a break.
There is an element of truth to most fiction. Increasingly over the last ten years, the idea of authoritarianism has been showing up in more and more of the books I read. Governments treating citizens cruelly, unfairly. "Leaders" enriching themselves at the expense of the commoners, who increasingly suffer through inflation, food shortages, heating crises, power crises. Dicktators lying to the people in outrageous ways, lies that any thinking human can see through, lies that tens of millions swallow whole like fine chocolate.
This is not coincidence. Authors are speaking out in their way about the state of this country and the world.
I have been reading a lot of espionage novels, and crime novels, because my brain is broken and it needs comfort food. I can't handle Tolstoy at the moment.
Many of these novels are written by former Navy Seal types, military people, and government insider's with knowledge of the evil truths we are not privy to. These books are chilling.
You think our government is working in our best interests? Think again.
You think things are not getting worse? Think again.
And I am talking the entire history of our government, but especially now.
Hunker down kids. Pretty soon we'll be standing in bread lines, thankful the wait is only four hours.
We reap what we sow.
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