Review: get ready folks!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2012
This was a pretty engrossing story that reflects some pretty terrifying parallels to our modern age. First among these is the concentration of power in one mega-corporation that both lulls the citizenry with instant gratification and mindless entertainment and controls the legislative process to meet it's needs (Citizen's United anyone?)Second is that we as a people willingly trade this for our liberty without question or thought to what we have done. When the collapse comes thanks to the exhaustion of the oil supply, it is quick, brutal, and those who don't know how to produce anything are pretty much doomed. While I don't believe that much of what happens in the book will happen (fingers and toes crossed) it should wake some people up to the fact that uninvolved and uninformed citizens are the greatest threat to liberty we as a nation have ever encountered. As I have said before, read at least 3 newspapers every day (esp. the business section, vote the self serving bums out, elect responsible people to lead, and keep learning everything you can...it just might save your bacon!