Do You Commit Thoughcrimes?

Went out to Big Bear with Natalia to a few antique shops. Not very cold and as always saw some much cool items I would love to put around my house. I just find old items attractive makes you think how we lived years past with such items in our lives.

Rainy weather all past weekend which was great by me. A little bit of snow Sunday overnight to keep everything white and "clean" again. Still moving along very slowly with Wizard And Glass. Started to read George Orwell's 1984 and hope to finish by the end of the week as work has me coming home very late and I take the mornings to slowly clean around the estate.

While cleaning around Tuesday morning I hear a big slam against one of my windows. It was a good sized bird slam and lay twitching on the snow. Soon it was immobile and hours went by. Next thing I know I see her walking around. Not long after that she flew off. Amazing what happened.

1984 I find a good book and one not too far off from society nowadays. Of course it is not really visual in the streets but many of these basic principles are being applies and are present. More and more I see a socialist agenda being pushed to the American citizens. Our welfare system which in many regions being pushed and causing its people to become not only dependent on it but them to feel it is normal to have the government support them. Why work or try to support yourself when the government will provide you with many goods. Our healthcare system trying to be reformed to in a way control the health care of all citizens to what certain groups feel is what we need. Just recently we have Anonymous hacking the U.S. Sentencing Commission site with a message in memory of Aaron Swartz whom we are told committed suicide. I don't know much about this case but just apply some of 1984 (proles = Anonymous?). I can even see the Though Police (Maybe using Facebook, Kinect, Twitter, etc) in the form of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act ) in their take down actions as the media is using them to manipulate us in the name of piracy. Call me a "crackpot" but this is what I see day to day. Not all is as bad as I make it seem as I believe it is a big nation with many out there not telling "Big Brother" to ....

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