And there it went, in what seemed a flash.
Divide and conquer is surely a time-tested strategy that often always works. It pays to stick together it seems.
Once upon a time, maybe in the way-out west, there lived a country that housed some people who once believed in limited government and personal freedoms. The folks who ruled them indeed did not share these beliefs.
Such new and alien concepts were sacrosanct to them, so much so that the people chose to enact and protect those beliefs with a covenant that they called a “constitution.” And they signed up to make it so.
It was a very original and, at the time, very radical approach to forming a government that they begrudgingly knew must exist in order for them to preserve and protect their little country from those who would destroy it from without.
But then something happened. While the little country grew and became prosperous, time after time succeeding indeed in protecting itself from those who would work to destroy it from without, there arose a movement that sought to weaken and ultimately destroy it; from within. And no one knew why this would be so very much desired.
No one could actually and easily see just how this came to pass as it came to pass quite slowly and over time, based upon ideas of progress as envisioned far across the sea and far away from the place on this earth where this country resided.
The educators began to instill what the politicians and social proponents would strive so hard to enshrine completely. And still, few of the non-educated would take notice.
Until it was too late to turn back the tide, that is. It flooded over the poor little country in a flash. Some wiser voices rose in protest but it was by then far too late.
Government was expanded until it began to control every part of the people’s lives.
Programs were begun and expanded in the name and guise of social justice.
Minority positions took complete precedence over majority ones and special factions were stitched together politically to form an increasingly belligerence consensus.
Voters, while voting was still allowed, were found wherever and however possible. Thus remained in place the guise of a free republic, or, at the very least, the appearance of an open democracy.
Organizations that once worked as counter-balance and even ballast against the pounding waves of change-for-the-sake-of-change were attacked and ultimately disallowed and summarily dismantled.
This went straight to religious groups, youth organizations, opposing political parties, conservative educational institutions, and even so far as the family structure that had garnered the little country so well and for so long.
And there was often the evil specter of what was called capitalism which was savagely attacked, along with its resident organizations of large and small merchant businesses- corporations the large ones were called.
The community organization was formed but it was not so much a community as it was a stitching together of individuals who were only allowed to gather, to organize, to protest, and to speak out as so allowed by those in power and solely for the purpose of continuing the attack on the old and successful system.
Until those organizations were too no longer needed for any purpose and, at which point, they were also outlawed by decree.
Freedom had come and freedom had gone and in its place was rooted progress-for-the-sake-of-progress, taught at the youngest ages in what passed for schools, and later inculcated at the advancing ages in what passed for a freely chosen position in the community.
All that was needed was provided and when it was not available the definition of what was needed was simply changed so that it could still be satisfied by convenience by exactly what was provided. No more and officially no less.
No personal freedoms whatsoever remained; no right to speak freely; no right to arm oneself; no ability to teach other than that was allowed to be taught; no choice of a career or life calling beyond what was allowed and allocated; no ability to change was any longer allowed now that change had served the purpose for which it had been conjured up.
There was no God and there was no individual any longer.
The family unit was taken apart and trivialized in its importance until it no longer existed either. And this was the final and concluding death knell to what had been so long before.
And whether or not you were allowed to be born was based on the results of genetic analysis. Elimination became swift and easy and no longer objected to by anyone.
And when you were allowed to be treated for malady or disease was determined by a panel of the faceless and the nameless.
And where you were allowed to travel was indeed restricted. In fact most movement beyond that necessary to support the state was strictly prohibited.
And when the economics of things so dictated, the right to remain living beyond a certain point was finally removed. Birth rates and death rates become a model of efficiency and their projections a symbol for institutional exactness and accuracy.
It was indeed not really much of a surprise that, in the end of things, the little country that had been overtaken from within was then overtaken from without.
And it became, as with the other such little and obedient countries a simple part of the global community that has presided over what remains there are of this now-fading and falling planet known as Earth.
Even that was no longer an issue of any significance as those who ruled determined that in order to save that planet from extreme devastation, unavoidable conflagration, inescapable inundation, and all subsequent ruination that the simple elimination of the human infestation would lead to self-saving desolation.
And so it was to be.
This story is really much longer than related here and there is so much more detail but the fact of the matter is that there are few who care to listen any longer and fewer still who choose to care at all.
And so it is.
