Isaiah 8:11 "The Lord spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said: 'Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread, and he will be your sanctuary; but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall...' Bind up the testimony and seal up the law among my disciples. I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him."
I'm so grateful that I don't have to put my trust in horses, chariots, presidents, kings, or the DMV.
I like it fine when those systems work. I like it when there is a semblance of order. I appreciate the sacrifice leaders at the local, state, and national level do to preserve a degree of stability. I try not to undervalue the lives of people that do hard things to keep up safe.
I tend to be skeptical of power whether it be governmental or corporate. I don't think either of those entities is particularly charitable. I don't get my panties in a knot about administrations. I just try to vote for the ones that are going to promote less government instead of more. Pretty simple.
I think it's important for me to start with evaluating myself and then move outwards from there - myself, my house, my family, my church, my neighborhood, my city and then maybe I could have an opinion about something else if I'm doing my best in all these areas.
What does this have to do with the book? Well, I guess just thinking about dystopian books and dystopian times. I try not to get upset if the descriptions of people in this book resemble those of brainwashed clone troopers that live in my country and world--people who repeat soundbites and seem to have no idea what they even mean--people who care more about saying the right thing than doing anything worthwhile.
Entirely too many words. She says as she spits more words into the universe.
Literary level--Huxley is a little too sciencey for my taste. He gets into the science of test tube babies and stuff like that. He has fun with it. I kind of skimmed over that stuff. I read this book in high school and I know the gist of what he's satirizing--a world devoid of extreme emotions. A world where folks are anaesthetized with pleasure and drugs into being submissive factory tools. I get it! I feel like I'm on the brink sometimes. It's so much easier (and cheaper) to watch Netflix then to go and experience something for myself. All the exciting stuff of life - like becoming an entrepreneur or having an adventure in nature require too many permits... (at least in this state lol) It's a sterile world devoid of intimacy, mess, melancholy, or risk.
Certain people want to take away risks so that no one ever experiences pain or want. Spoken as someone who has never gone without food or shelter, I acknowledge that it's easy for me to talk about freedom and risk. I have a credit card, a car, husband, family who are there for me etc etc... I just am not convinced that we do people favors by mitigating every single risk. Dull Dull.
Got to go! Got to monitor my daughter's return from the grocery store. Oh the irony!
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