I always thought it was funny that the Brits considered Doctor Who to be a children's show. I mean, seriously, look at Louise Jameson, who played Leela in the late seventies. Sure, maybe she's not Diana Rigg hot, but then again, put her in a leather catsuit and I wouldn't kick her out of the Tardis for the occasional knife fight.
Diana Rigg
Diana RiggI seem to have lost my train of thought.
Oh, yeah, Cory Doctorow's young adult novel, Little Brother, scared the shit out of me.
Oh, yeah, Cory Doctorow's young adult novel, Little Brother, scared the shit out of me.
Little Brother is about the excesses of government, in this case, a future United States government, still locked in the thrall of terrorist-induced fear.
Doctorow paints a picture so disturbing and yet so familiar, it left me looking over my shoulder and considering encrypting all me email.
I don't want to give away many spoilers, but I think the reality is that we must never fool ourselves into the "it can never happen here," mentality. In my short life, I have already experience one even which "changed the world forever*." It would be foolish not to worry about more.
*The world really didn't change, or course, the only thing that changed was, for once, Americans felt themselves in the crosshairs that people all around the world feel trained on them every day of their life.
