Unhappily Ever After

"We have more ways of ending the world than we had before-these are big hard truths facing these kids and they need to know these things". Indeed they do Ms Duprau. But, do they need get their knowledge from fictionalized accounts based on an author's interpretation of what MIGHT happen? Back in the days of the Cold War, it was the aftermath of a nuclear Armageddon that forced humans to exsist in some kind of anarchistic society, pursued by some malefic government entity, or cyborgs who sought to end the human race. Now, its the end times, global warming, the energy crisis, pick your doom and gloom scenario and you will find an author ready and willing to fan the flames of fear into a global conflagration that leaves no hope for the human race in their tired and tepid trope. Just a little light summer reading.

Is it any wonder we look at our neighbor and our government with mistrust and suspicion and our future with trepidation when all we have to go on are the wild ravings that come from diseased minds. We are all going to hell in a hand cart and these missives are the grease that cover the rails. Does it not seem funny that none of these prognostications put forth by these harbingers of doom have ever come true? In fact, they have never even come close to reality. Does anyone remember all the fear generated by these chicken littles over Y2K? What ever came of that? My point exactly. Instead of looking for the worst and extrapolating an unknown quantity into certain reality based on supposition, perhaps we should step back give ourselves a bit more credit than we have up until this point; and with a bit of logic and common sense realize that the sum of all our fears are just an illusion. A game that is played for profit with no thought of consequence in the theater of the mind.