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The Comfort of Routine
“I do,
like you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the
familiar, the tranquility of repetition…..”
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
“Love your rage, not your cage.”
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Written
by Steven Griggs | stevengriggs.com
If
you saw the film V for Vendetta, you will remember the broadcast that V sent
out to the population of London. The above quote was the opening lines of his
speech. He was trying to use the power
of words to rouse the people from their sleep, from their lethargy of
acceptance.
To
awaken them so they could see that through their acceptance and preference to
overlook small incursions into their freedoms, they had allowed their freedom
to be quietly taken from them….
Yes,
routine and repetition becomes very comfortable, soothing…….. simpler …. It’s so much easier to sleep walk through
life than push against the small nuisances that nag at us from the corner of
our minds.
Those
little annoyances like having your 85 year grandmother searched at the airport
for the bomb or weapons she may be carrying or having to give up your nail
clippers and mouthwash at the security checkpoint….. or knowing that every
phone conversation, every email and every text you send is being monitored…..?
Are
we letting our freedoms slowly be taken from us? Are we letting ourselves be
programed by fear and constant bad news? And because of the fear do we crave
more security and the need to be protected? And has this need to be protected
caused us to overlook and even accept the fact that our liberty is slowly being
stripped away?
Do
we really need the government to protect us by limiting our freedom? We 're
told it's necessary for the government make us more secure. Really? Is this
really true?
The
nature of government is control and once given it can never be taken back.
If
you get a chance, watch the movie-“V For Vendetta”. It may resonate with you
and you may see parallels…..
Don’t
be asleep. Don’t stay in step with the marching legions of the majority. Watch.
“The
majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of the lies in society
that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people
that make up the biggest portion of the population, the intelligent ones or the
fools?” Henrik Ibsen
