Red or Blue?
Is it just me? Or does it appear as if the majority of the populace has been on a steady diet of the blue pill lately? It must be that most of the population exists in this Matrix that Jack built. That is the only explanation I can find for this pervading “sleep” that has created a lull over the nation.
How else could one describe this “blissful ignorance of illusion” that causes the population to not question why Jack’s greatest achievement on his “war” on crime as National Security Minister to date, is be clear that “private companies who shall remain private” paid for Shaq’s $10 million-dollar visit. Or is that the sleep so sweet, we forgot all about the spectacle of our PM being lifted high in the air to dunk a basketball? 35 murders later, all we can get from our Jack is a “I didn’t kill them…” and a promise for a crime plan long overdue, in another 4 months.
It must be that people are sleeping, because the nightmare continues. Our PM has been conspicuously mum on this and other major issues, not even to blame PNM incompetence and corruption. The once vocal business leaders in Port of Spain, must be rolling over in their comfy beds, sucking their thumbs while they nap because we have heard nothing from them on this latest surge in crime. And as for the PNM providing a glitch in this matrix, not happening, as they too seem to be snoozing.
When you have a National Security Minister claiming that he doesn’t know the meaning of the phrase “abuse of power” while he personally escorts a demolition crew to violently oust protestors and no one bats an eye, you know is level Ambien people swallowing. In this dream state, it seems many people cannot tell the difference between right and wrong anymore. Happy tidings for our wide awake criminal elements.
You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. – Morpheus, The Matrix
This rabbit hole, so far, has been one long nasty fall with no bottom in sight yet.