Holiday Boredom and Depression

"IT'S THE HOLIDAYS!!" I shouted on Friday. Well now I'm bored and depressed. Who would have thought I would dislike holidays?

Anyway, I read a book today. Quite a short one (and quite old too). It's called The Time Machine, by H.G.Wells.

It's really depressing. I mean, it's fantastic and all that, being able to travel through time and all (who wouldn't like that?), but the Wells' vision of the future is really sad. He predicted that humanity would decline into Morlocks and Eloi, basically animals with rudimentary language and precious little reason, with the Morlocks preying on the Eloi.

Isn't that sad? Look around you now and tell me that you think it's possible. It may be beyond our imagination now, but take a long, serious look at the world in general and Wells seems to be rather accurate. What animal kills others of its own species in mass? Humans, thats what.

It reminded me of another novel. Must have read this one last year, I think. 1984, by George Orwell. This one is disturbing because of another reason. Wells was predicting something more long term, but Orwell actually set his novel in 1984, meaning that his was a really (relatively) short term vision.

In Orwell's novel, the world is split into 3 parts, with a permanent war being waged between any 2 of the countries against the third. The scary thing is, the government controlling the state he protagonist lives in is a so-called Big Brother government, that controls every aspect of life. If the superiors give an order, it's carried out "for the good of the Party". Want to change history? sure, seeing as we control the only records, no problem. Just change the records. Even sex is made into nothing more than a public service, as to bring children into the world is a service to the Party.

Don't tell me you don't see it happening now. We believe whatever the Government tells us, without questioning.

Scary, isn't it?

BTW, thought this was interesting: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL2020651320070820