V for Vendetta

So, I watched it for the second time last night, first time was opening night in the theater this spring. Honestly, it is not my absolute favorite movie of all time but it is pretty high up there, but the most important aspect of it is how well true fascism is portrayed in the film. The cause and fight for freedom and the reactions of the people is so amazing to see portrayed, and it makes me think about our conditions here in the US today.

You probably know me enough by now to understand that I believe the U.S. Government is on a fast nose-dive to collapse and structural failure. Watching V for Vendetta helps to solidify that in my mind as well, but one thing that it makes me reconsider is how soon. When looking at that depiction, albeit fiction, it shows conditions far worse than we currently have here in the U.S. at this time, and I can only wonder how much more people will take before they feel the need to get up off their asses and do something about it.

V does very well to tell the people that their problem is them, that they are the ones that should be in control and that actually it is not so much the government that the people are afraid of, it is fear of fear.
"People should not be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of the people."
This concept is something that the Founding Fathers understood very well, they wrote documents, passed laws and started a nation in spite of potential fears of a mighty government. And knowing all that they had to go through they also understood what powers to restrict from the government and give to the people so that the government does not get so large that the people begin to fear it. It is though the cleverly designed plan of evil people, of a similar ilk to those fictional characters in V for Vendetta and other real historical well-known tyrants such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Moussolini, Sadam Hussien and others, that have given way to what we have in America today.

Americans need to wake up!!! This is happening to us, look at this movie, understanding that it is through small steps in the wrong direction that you realize in 30 years that you are living in a box shaking with fear because you have been conditioned to do so. In reality, we don't have that long because we have been going down that path for much longer, just that the culmination of these things has been stalled due to the hard work of some people, but the fact still remains: we must get serious about getting educated on what is really going on here and then to get active against it. We do still have some powers left, but if we do not exercise them now we will have lost a great opportunity and we will be headed down a long, dark road that will be hard to come out of.