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The SOURCE
...The Hunger Games Spark
By Lyle Stout
lstout13@hotmail.com
A few weeks
ago, I sat at the
movie theater
waiting to go
into a popular movie. It must have
been worth waiting for because I
remember the line was very long;
luckily, most of it was behind us. As
I sat for that half hour, I read all the
movie posters on the wall across the
aisle, and one of them was for the
new Hunger Games movie that will
come out in the fall. The movies are
based on books written by Suzanne
Collins, and if, at this point, you’ve
never heard of Hunger Games, I feel
sorry for you and will just say it’s
time to tune back into popular society
just a tad. Years ago, I remember
my dad asking me if the Star
Wars movies had anything to do
with President Reagan’s Strategic
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Defense Initiative. You are about on
that level of social awareness.
As I read the Hunger Games
poster, it had a tag line that said
“sometimes it only takes a spark to
ignite a revolution.” Having read
only the first of the series of books,
I would have to assume that the
heroine, Katniss, will somehow be
the spark that ignites a revolution
against the tyrants in Capitol City
who hold the rest of the districts
under their evil thumb.
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Suddenly, it struck me as completely
ironic that the population
of the United States would make
these movies as popular as the first
one was. How many of the people
who saw the movie had just voted
for a man who ran a campaign on
what his administration would
give them if they elected him and
allowed him to
continue to usurp
their rights? They
are engrossed in a
movie about fighting
a government
that has become
so big that it can
demand their firstborn
be offered up
to die for the pleasure
of the television audience, and
they are voting for a political ideal
that moves our country closer to
that point than it has ever been in
history. They have just seen their
real right to choose their own doctor
start becoming a decision made
in Capitol City, but they’ll root for
Katniss in the movie as she thwarts
Capitol City’s effort to make her kill
her buddy from the district.
Rush Limbaugh coined a phrase
recently to describe people who can
say they are against the direction
the country is moving but still support
President Obama as he moves
it in that direction. Rush called them
“low-information voters;” evidently
they are the people going to see The
Hunger Games to root against the
fictitious Capitol City while voting
for and supporting the real life version
of Capitol City.
These “low-information voters”
come in all ages and stripes, the
younger ones supporting vague
ideals they really can’t express if
you ask them directly, but many
adamantly defending the party
they belong to as “not as mean as
those other guys.” The older group
of “LIVs” are mainly an uninformed
group of aging hippies and complete
communists who would gladly
trade their drab lives for the purple
hair and painted lips of the Capitoldwellers
in the movie. I can pictures
those faces, painted like Effie
Trinket, smiling as they watch the
video screens of the Hunger Games
competition as youngsters from the
other districts fight to the death—all
the time making up a population
so smug it thinks it has the all the
answers when, in fact, they have
never understood why the man
who owns a company makes more
than an employee who has worked
for him a month. They are unable
to understand how that employee
can like his job and look at it as
an opportunity, rather than being
insulted he can’t start at the top.
Watching Facebook posts, I see
these older LIVs try to dominate
the conversation. If someone posts
a picture of their God Obama with
facts they don’t like, they immediately
go on the attack, posting page
after page of drivel that they think
defends their God and viciously
attacking and trying to belittle anyone
who dares to disagree with any
of their posts. The distorted facts
they post mainly come from sites
sponsored by like-minded LIVs
who also pray to that same God,
but the recent election shows that,
indeed, the sheep are being herded
in the direction desired by those
herders.
Each day, we see the Capitol City
residents with their dyed hair and
painted lips take more and more
of our rights, our money through
increasing taxes, and our respect for
our country. And each day we hear
more rumblings of the oncoming
storm. The only question remaining
is, what will be that spark mentioned
in the Hunger Games poster
that ignites a revolution?
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