I bet the world looks a lot prettier with nothing but blankness in it

This book perfects a concept I described in the Children of Men blog about detail. To specify, the concept was that as a story takes individual circumstances down to a deeper and more realistic level, that story becomes more easily interpretable by all sides, as thought that story was really arguing for whatever the listener/reader wanted. As this is the case, I would argue that the book is about revolution, about a people so bent on control over themselves that they need to control others in order to "protect" themselves. This then ultimately leads to those being controlled, so desperate for control over themselves, that they switch places with the once ruling class through bloodshed and revolution, referred to in the book as scissors and sneakiness. The best way to sum up the authors whole argument is with a post title I saw on reddit while procrastinating these blogs: "In Germany it is not illegal to try to escape from prison because it's basic human instinct to be free."

The primary theme in the book is that controlling others is a flawed and inevitably failing concept. A government can try its hardest to get a grip on every possibility that could happen; as the founding fathers said, the government will give you as much freedom as it can before it impediments another's. My fist can go far, but only as far as in front of and not touching your face. The author, as I, laugh at this notion that the abilities of one can be controlled by another, almost as though ability isn't inalienable. The government recognizes this, so they take a different route: control the mind, and the body will follow. Make people live in fear, so that they are too scared to want to be free. Make public examples of consequences for seemingly insignificant acts, consequences as inhumane as decades in a cell. So what happens when all this control and fear get rendered useless by something man cannot conquer, nature?

When man becomes forced free from its bonds, all organization doesn't break down, but reassemble to more natural orders. There's no chaos or "anarchy" as you pessimists would say, but peace and love for thy neighbor and other concepts for which governments see no need. Individuals realize that they are better off themselves by helping others, who would in turn help them. As Marx once said, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" (no I didn't realize Marx said this when I typed it into google to get the full quote.)

That loathful moment when you realize this blog says it was posted at 5 am, and its not lying.