I'm Batman Pt 1.

What an amazing movie the new Batman movie was. It had me going the whole time. I won't give away the end so no spoiler alerts here. What did strike me was the message the movie was not so subtlety sending. The message is familiar especially in the current age of the occupy movement. Simply the rich are bad and the middle class and the poor must rise up and steal back what's been taken from them. That affluence and status are stations to be scorned and destroyed. Somehow anyone who has more than you got it through deceit and corruption. The mindset of the "Fatcat" who is a glutton seems to be pervading into our twenty something generation. Though the Occupy movement had little effect on the economy or our culture, it it my opinion was a virus and not a bacteria. A virus can enter the body, give some symptom of the disease then lay dormant for weeks even years.

It's the fear of economic ruin that is what is helping the infection spread. The housing collapse and the chronic unemployment are causing even level headed folks to contemplate operating in the moral gray. We can look at the birth pains of a rise in crime in cities like Detroit and Chicago, where multiple slayings occur daily. The entire city of Detroit is weeks away from insolvency and it's leaders are already crying out to Obama to save them. I suspect it will fall on deaf ears. I know I am a bit of a conspiracy theorists, but why would the current administration want our economy to prosper? I line that the character Bain from the movie struck me. It was part of Obama's first  campaign. Bain said, "you can't have suffering without hope". Once a person surrenders to the fact that there is no way out of their situation they become complacent. To truly make someone suffer they must always have that perception that they may be able to change that circumstance.

We find ourselves in that very situation for the last four years. The unemployment rate goes down then back up. The stock market does up and then back down. There is always that ray of sunshine that is coming though our cell window, but is just above our reach to be able to touch or feel it. With this constant emotional roller coaster you have the ability to sway or brainwash entire populations. The people become exhausted of fighting the trends and so give up their hope to their leaders. Once that hope is surrendered that's when a true dictatorship is created. Look at the great countries that when from a semblance of a democracy to a autocratic government. All of former USSR, Cuba, China. At one time these countries had some freedoms, we can debate at what amounts later, but there are similarities to what is occurring here.