Review: One of the very best
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2013
I have read a lot of the post collapse genre and this one is one of the best if not the best I have read to date. I particularly like the treatment of religion within the frame work of this book as well as the call for doing what is right regardless of the cost because the cost of not doing what is right is so much greater. It is not a pleasant book because it is not shy about the costs, but neither is it shy about the rewards. In recent history we have seen those costs played out. Consider Bonheoffer in Nazi Germany as well as people like Corrie ten Boom they knew the cost even when they were not certain of the outcome. In this book we have some of the same themes played out. The question I am left with is will we be willing to pay the cost for the liberty we hold dear or will we keep a low profile and accept our loss without doing a thing? We have seen our government do things that we would have never considered possible. Such as the courts determining that email is not considered confidential as snail mail is. Our unwarranted tapping and retention of our phone conversations, I have friend that lived in countries where they did not discuss anything beyond the weather and inviting one another to lunch or dinner because they knew they were being overheard. They discussed issues in public places like a park or on a street corner to avid the government spies. They are strongly suggesting that we do the same thing. One might say that some countries have moved from being overlords and overseers to being less intrusive while we have moved to the elite being our overlords and spies. At some point we either change or rebel. This book paints a picture of what such a rebellion might initially cost.