Sunday, November 14, 2010

Hey world, this is crazy


So, today my dad woke up to a scratching sound in his bedroom. He thought it was our dog, Mitzi, so he told her to go back downstairs. It didn’t stop, so he woke up a bit more. He realized that the noise was not only in the room, but it was coming from his wastebasket. He went downstairs, got a cutting board, and covered the wastebasket. The next morning, our neighbor noticed that he looked pretty bad. He hadn’t gotten much sleep, wondering what was in the basket, for he hadn’t looked. She told him she wanted to see what was inside, so she got her husband, and while they crossed the street, asked if it was a squirrel. My dad does not like squirrels, because one broke his leg once. Long story short, he was on a ladder, it jumped at him, he jumped back, then after he landed, remembered that he had been on a ladder. The neighbor took one short look in the bin, and shrieked. My dad, who had thought it was a mouse or rat, asked her what it was. She responded, “It’s a bat!” My dad didn’t believe her, so just a second later there was an identical shriek. It was a bat. The wastebasket moved outside, and the cutting board was weighed down by a log or two.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Hey world! I hope this isn't what you turn out to be

So, all you assorted people out there. I read the book A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and I hope his prediction of the future isn't accurate.
I was inspired to read this book when I saw that it was at least a second year course book for Walter Peyton College Preparatory High School.
In his book, no one was born naturally, they were all 'decanted'. To be called a mother was an insult. Every person was part of a caste. Everyone was addicted to 'Soma', which seems like a type of hallucination inducing drug. Every child was subjected to sleep teaching, where recorded voices repeated 'moral' phrases. This firmly ingrained certain rhymes about their world in the child's head wile they were sleeping.There was no such thing as marriage, it was considered anti-social to not conform to the strict regimen of free love, except without the love, and drug use. To stay with someone for more than a week, this was considered odd. And don't even get me started on the 'savage preserves'. These were small areas of land that the Alpha ++'s , or the 'world controllers' deemed insignificant, resource wise. People who decided to stay living here were treated as savages, and treated as if in a zoo. High ups could schedule an appointment to visit one of the savage reserves, and travel by helicopter above all the 'savages'. Savages, feelies, which were a type of 5d performance that was directly administered into the senses, Soma, and Obstacle golf. This was their world.
And can you not see why I wouldn't want this world to turn out this way?