To the editor:
Thanks for coming clean Fiona Hughes. I’m pretty sure there are many millions like you out there, in fact I’m continually surprised at how many people seem to know very little about the world around them and so much about sport/movies/celebrities/TV shows/fiction etc. I shouldn’t be surprised because it’s the perfect explanation for why the world is the way it is, and it’s exactly the kind of world the rogues that rule us like — not only a world in which people don’t look for the man behind the curtain; the kind where most people don’t even know there’s a curtain.
I understand the desire for a little escapism like I understand the desire for a little drink or a little junk or a little acid but I think that people would enjoy it more if they actually found out something about the horrors they are escaping from first. Of course I am wrong. I am a voracious non-fiction/news/science/politics consumer (and some time participant).
I like facts the way a dog likes the wind outside the car window, eyes fluttering in the information stream eager for answers and questions.
If enough people knew how the world really worked, could see how the levers were operated, then the people would be the ones driving the country instead of leaving it in the hands of some rich kid’s chauffeur.
But for a lot of people it’s just too much cabbage and kale and when there’s unlimited ice-cream I can see how folks would rather fill up on dessert.
Good on you for trying though. I appreciate it.
Stephen B. Coulson,
Vancouver
