I just had the opportunity to watch The Giver (2014), and I was amazed at the Libertarian messages resonating throughout.
The Intelligentsia of the story world decided that the pain of life (war, hunger, oppression) was too great a cost to pay for the joy of life (love, hope, music, family). So they created a world set apart from the rest of the world.
It was a world with artificially controlled weather, a chemically induced society with no emotions, emotional ties, or ability to see/hear/appreciate things like music, color, or love. The society are all of the same skin tones, they wear assigned clothing, used assigned language and speech, they live in identical homes with assigned family units.
The population had their collective memories erased, so that they did not even remember the world that was. This was the only life they knew, and they served this life with a fierce (but blind) loyalty.
At certain points I just felt like it was Bernie Sanders (or Stalin or Hitler) and the Progressive left's Utopian Socialist Society speaking. An All Powerful Dictator would decide what was best for these stupid humans (Clinton and Trump). They need only comply. Those who do not comply would be "released", a euphemism for put to death.
It was the loan Giver/Receiver that held the memories of the world; and, with those memories he held love, joy, peace, pain, war, hate...
Without giving away the entire movie, the single driving force of this film was to remind you that freedom of choice, freedom of religion, freedom of person-hood and individuality; are all paramount to understanding the value and meaning of life.
If you have your choices made for you, you may as well not be living.
Anyone dependent on the government for food, medicine, money, living, house, education, or anything else... is a slave not a free man/woman.
Slavery was not abolished in the United States of America (USA), it was transformed. Now all people, not just minorities, are slaves to the system. The IRS, EPA, FDA, Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security, are just a few of the tools they use to keep the unsuspecting public submitted to the system.
When someone speaks up to warn the people of their slavery, they use their tools to silence this opposition (as the IRS did in the 2012 - 2014 election cycles).
It is time to free our selves from the system. Republican and Democrat control of the USA must be dismantled, piece by piece, brick by brick, law by law, executive order by executive order... it must all come down. Liberty must reign once again if our children will have anything to grow up toward.
#VoteLibertarian from here forward.... #LiveFree
Darrell
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