The Grasshopper Lies Heavy
or generational servitude
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” – Orwell
We the People
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star‐spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Francis Scott Key 1814
And so American’s slogan began; “Land of the free and the home of the brave.”
But realistically, things have changed dramatically since that inspiring song was written we are not the home of the free. Corporate World War I and Corporate World War II changed our slogans. The bankers in particular gave America many new slogans to live by. Many hands fund wars, and big money buys catchy slogans. What if we regular Americans were led to believe we won those wars.
Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, Sci-fi writer, tells a different story.
The Man in the High Castle imagines a world wherein the Axis Powers defeated the Allies in World War II. Unfolding fifteen years after the war's end, the novel reveals that no peace can exist when the victors of a conflict remain power-hungry and precarious. By 1962, governing their respective portions of the partitioned United States, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany clash over the futures they imagine for the human race. While the Reich continues its pursuit of "racial purity" through the exterminations of ethnic minorities, disabled and queer peoples, Imperial Japan enacts policies of "judicial racism" focused mainly on the oppression of Black, Chinese, and Anglo Americans as a subservient working class. Inspired by the transmission of the banned novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy -- a novel within the novel which imagines the result of an Allied victory -- politicians, rebels, and revolutionaries move beyond intrigue and into direct conflict. The implications of Dick's novel remain relevant today, and its adaptation into the streaming series on Amazon Prime is genuinely and uniquely unnerving. They paid for some very good writers.
Americans are subservient to the ruling factions in PKD’s 1962 novel. But I ask you; Are we not subservient to the global corporate monarchy in this unfolding novel of today? Where one needs a birth certificate to be born, a certificate of guaranteed future labor of which the state holds the title and a certificate of death which releases one from the contract with the state. Upon the release of the contract with the recently deceased, heirs must pay a tax. Plus all the laws legislated upon the regular guy, constant taxes, and licenses one pays during that time which makes up one’s lifetime, isn’t that a yoke of slavery? To pay men for the audacity to live and breath on a planet that God made plenty for human life.
As 2022 turns into 2023 we have some hard challenges and hard decisions ahead of us. I fear too, coming shortly where our young people will again be sent off to fight their corporate wars. There is money to be made by wars, plus war hides and disguises many secrets. Sending our children to war thins the herd and allows those that are left to be easier to manage, cold and starvation motivates people with a reason to continue answering to their masters. A difficult choice, indeed. There will be a fight on American soil for America. There will be new slogans created. Will we be the ones creating those slogans or the bankers?
"Tough times create strong men, strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men, weak men create tough times."
It is time to throw off the yoke of servitude, give them back their safe and convenient slogans that keep most Americans docile and domesticated. The tough times ahead will once again serve to provide us with strong men, hopefully.
Preparing for such times in advance greatly enhances the right choices. It is time to find out what we are made of America. What it is like to truly be a free people, self reliant, and self governing. All humans have the god given right to determine their life for themselves. Hear me now, no politician, no new politics, no government of any kind is going to solve this crisis. Many are waking up to the fact that we have been lied to and are “As mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore.”
We will have to take some pain, so steel yourself it’s coming. Shortly, you will find out what you and America are made of. Do you have grit?? Do you have what it takes to throw off the heavy burden we have laid on our children? It is up to each one of us living on this planet today to put things right for those yet to be born.
Hold your family close America, find your tribe, the road ahead is about to very get bumpy. 2023, 2024, 2025, will see big changes. Those able to adapt will survive.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
From my family to yours as we ring in 2023, much love my dear readers and may God truly bless you and yours in the coming new year.
