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Farce: Control of the Village through Terror

I re-watched The Village' the other night and something struck me this time that had never even occurred to me the first time I viewed it. Alas, I was sleep walking the first time I watched The Village', I was wide awake the other night.

The village, created by the elders, is literally an island of isolation from modern society. The villagers, reminiscent of the Amish, believe that monsters live on their borders. The monsters, described as farce by William Hurt's character, serve to herd the villagers and frighten them away from ever contemplating a venture beyond the village borders. The fact that cars, planes, phones, computers, medicine, sex and all of the good, bad and ugly of modern life are only a few miles away, is completely hidden from the humble and utterly deceived people of the village.

What do we the people' of the American village, fear? Who will protect us from what we fear? Who is telling us what and who to fear? Does the system that tells, we the people' of the village what to fear, have its own, unseen agenda? Are we being herded? If we venture into the forest of reality that borders the village, will we be butchered by monsters? If the monsters turn out to be squirrels and everything that we've been led to believe about the forest and what goes on beyond the forest has been obfuscation, exaggeration and outright lies; what then, do we do about the rulers of the village and what indeed, do we do about the village itself?

And so I ask you my fellow villagers, is the war on terror real? Can our protectors wage war on a tactic? Is there really a world-wide terrorist organization called Al Qaeda? If there really are monsters plotting to terrorize our village, then why haven't the borders been completely secured and the ports turned over to American security forces? We are told that the shadowy enemy is everywhere and that they hate us for the freedoms we possess. We are told that cells of this dark force live among us and lie in wait. We are told that we must spill a lot of American blood in order to fight this enemy abroad, so we won't have to fight them over here. We are shown videotapes of Islamo-fascist', jihadists, who threaten Americans and who call for war. We are presented with the exposures of deadly plots and the arrests of terrorists', who consequently, disappear without trials, as soon as the media surge resides. But, most importantly, our rights under the Constitution, the freedoms that made

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