barbaralba's first book report since college:

GENERATION OF VIPERS


Philip Wylie

 

Chapter 13

Statesmen can be summed up for me quite simply.

They are the public relations puppets for the metal business. They are usually idiots and religious. Now that television has invaded most every home, it helps if the leader looks like a clown.

"Hi, I'm a fuckin' idiot. We are going to control the world's resources."

And everything else they do amounts to very little.

Except that the workers can have plastic toys for their fat ass metal slave kids.

Chapter 14

Professors. The schools, colleges and universities are a farce in Metal Central. America. And many other countries. A society based on working for the metal industry and its affiliates can not produce young people who can think. Thinking leads to clearer observation.

Clear observation will alert the observer that we are living very dangerously.

Ignoring its dangers to our survival is to be a follower of the belief in the holy kill and steal business.

I got lucky.

I was encouraged by many teachers to think. They were happy to see I intended to continue thinking. By the time I got to college, my English teachers encouraged me to write.

I remember an English teacher in high school telling me I had to learn to read. Graduation year.

I didn't do it because she told me. I knew she was right. And I started straight away.

To earn myself the right to write with authority.

A weapon stronger than metal.

Chapter 15

King David's mother gave David, her one year old first born, to the Priests. The priests made him into a king. After Saul and his sons were murdered, David was the obvious choice.

Saul killed hundreds, David killed 10s of thousands.

David was the true leader of genocide and pillaging.

Solomon murdered only a few relatives then didn't murder a baby before a crowd of peasants and could afford to swim in the wealth gathered by Davie and his sword wielding army.

Thousands of years later, the metal war industry has made a third world that they rape and hold at bay and rape with threat of Religion and high velocity metal.

It's a bloody science fiction story and we're in it.

Metal war lords take over the world and in their mismanagement, bring the survival of all Earth born creatures on the brink of total destruction.

We are going to have to be awake to leave something for the next chapter.


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