Do Something
By RANT
ATS Weekly, Edition 018, November 15, 2005
There are days when we all just want do little more than prophesize the end of the world being at hand, and usually with good reason. Doom and
gloom has been ever present in man's historically recorded efforts to portend, and is as popular now as ever. It's the main product manufactured,
distributed and successfully sold by all authority from media, church and state alike. Fear motivates like nothing else. But motivates to do what
exactly?
Vote against a candidate rather than for one? Hate the pious or the irreligious? Shun anything and everyone different? Given the shrinking nature
of our world and spectacular rise of international communities like AboveTopSecret.com, it's ironic to see how we frequently choose to react to the
world around us. Fear.
Humanity itself is increasingly delineated with arbitrary lines of us and them, based on little more than fear of a gender, skin color, heritage,
faith or sexual orientation. Some may rally angrily in our exclusive groups calling ourselves activists, effectively accomplishing nothing but further
division, but most of us simply… give up. Apathy is the ultimate goal of any authority trying to render a subject ineffective as a means toward
total control through the process of fear, leading to anger, leading nowhere.
Understand this manipulation and you're we'll on your way to 'denying ignorance.' But that's not enough. To overcome this manipulation, one must 'deny apathy' as well. In short, do something.
The end is not near.
RANT
ATS Super Moderator
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