THE FUTURE OF OUR SOCIETY?

"INVASION OF THE INSECTOIDS" ^ | STEVE GORGON

[Indie]

Forward

From the log of War Admiral Norman North, Commander, 7th fleet:

I always blamed myself for letting it happen. But in reality, it was society's fault. Society, our society, which had rotted to the very core.

I had roused them once before, to face the menace which now threatened to utterly wipe us out as a free society. But when a chance came for peace, any chance, no matter how unrealistic, no matter how risky, they grasped it in an unbreakable bear hug, and there was nothing I or anyone could do to separate them from it. For our society not only had lost the will to fight, but even worse, had lost even the will to enable us, the warrior class, to defend it.

Our advancements in technology had regretfully eliminated the need for workers. Rohelpers took over what little that still needed to be done manually, and most citizens became a passive bunch of consumers, interested only in consumption, focused on their next vid, their next meal, their next bit of entertainment. And war was inconvenient for them, not because they had to fight it (most of them didn't), but the prospect of conflict threatened to distract them from their all- important pursuit of pleasure.

So when the enemy proposed their deceitful peace, they didn't have to make much of an effort to deceive us.

[Indie]

Some of parallels in this excerp are pretty spooky. Sounds exactly like what I'd expect if a Rat wins the election.