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A Review of “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins REPRINT

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From  July 10, 2012

Make way for the new Harry Potter! Make way for the successor to Twilight! The Hunger Games is taking over as the new idol for America’s young readers and movie-goers. The next great franchise has arrived!

So far, the movie version of Suzanne Collins’ first Hunger Games novel (it’s a trilogy) is the year’s box-office champion. Supermarkets are selling Hunger Games posters and movie guides, and you can bet the video game won’t be far behind.

Some Christian commentators-Kevin Swanson, for one-are denouncing it. Others are trying to spin some kind of Christian message out of it. No one is ignoring it.

The Hunger Games is a very well-written book, an expertly-crafted thriller. Collins never writes down to her young readers. Her prose is perfectly suited to its task, and never seems to get in the way of the story. She excels at arousing emotions of suspense, indignation, relief, and whatever else she wishes her reader to experience.

But for all that, The Hunger Games has a very nasty aftertaste, and I will not recommend it for young readers.

Let me tell you why.

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Honk If You Believe This S***

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Here come the bus, here come the bus!

According to a poll by “Bolt,” whoever they are, one out of five drivers in Britain believe “Government should [be] actively discouraging the use of cars” (https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1713564/car-ownership-transport-driving-attitude-changes). This is some of the stupid nooze I didn’t bother to write yesterday.

Yes, Ma’am! “World Car Free Day!” Freeze your tuchas off waiting for a train. Sit up on the roof of the bus with the chickens. Toodle off to work on your scooter, in the rain. Wahoo–“the people” joyfully carry manure to the fields!

Wait a minute, there–couldn’t you have just as well said “four out of five British drivers don’t want the government discouraging the use of cars”?

Well, you don’t need a crystal ball to see what this is all about. It’s about taking away your mobility. When car ownership became virtually universal in America, it helped create the middle class. To a slightly lesser degree, it did that in Britain, too. If you have a car, you can go where you want, when you want to go. You don’t have to wait for some government bus or train that may or may not get there on time.

Freedom of movement is freedom! And that’s why the global government crowd doesn’t want you to have it. That’s why they want to take your car away, by hook or by crook. Read all about it in The Hunger Games.

‘Let the Government Drive Your Car?’ (2016)

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Imagine if the government could remote-control your car! You’d be in good hands, wouldn’t you?

Let the Government Drive Your Car?

Driverless, computer-guided cars… it sounds like something out of The Hunger Games. You don’t seriously think they’re going to worry about the robo-cars behind unsafe or unreliable, do you?

Honk if you agree with this statement: “I want Joe Biden to drive my car for me!”

Then tell us where to send the men in the white coats.

‘They Just Won’t Leave Us Alone’ (2019)

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At any given time, somewhere in this country, some government is trying to wipe out suburbs and cram everybody into what they laughingly call “an urban environment.”

They Just Won’t Leave Us Alone

It’s like they’re trying to make The Hunger Games come true. I don’t know, maybe they are. What would be too perverse for our ruling class? Nothing springs to mind.

As fallen, depraved creatures, we humans can take any environment and trash it. Doesn’t have to be a city: we do it to our suburbs, too. And to rural neighborhoods.

Once again, the Diversity nobs want to force us all into the same mold. I think it’s rather nice that we have a choice in what sort of place we want to call home–city, country, suburbs. But the “pro-choice” crowd won’t let you choose: it’s their way or no way.

Are They Kidding?

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We sometimes have occasion to visit the new Whole Foods store in our town.

One of the first things we see is a whole bunch of signs reserving parking space for “high occupancy vehicles only.” Defined as a car with four people in it.

Oh, please. How often do you see a car with four people in it? Yeah, okay–if you watch The Beverly Hillbillies reruns, with the four Clampetts in their old jalopy. Maybe the Clampetts are on their way to shop at Whole Foods.

How do they know, by looking at an empty parked car, how many people came to the store in it? They don’t seem to have any sentries. Nobody skulking around to make sure there weren’t only two people in the car.

What they are doing here, of course, is virtue signalling. We’re gonna *Save The Planet* by stuffing extra people into cars! I mean, if we can’t get them to come here on their bikes or trikes or skateboards. That would be even better.

Somebody out there wants us to live like the people in The Hunger Games, who don’t have cars, it’s not allowed, and can’t go anywhere.

The thing about the car is that it gives us independence. We go where we want to go, when we want to go. For some reason the elitists just can’t stand that. Independence and mobility should only be for The Best People. Not us peasants.

Hey, if they enforced their silly rule, we’d never go there at all. How about a store with no customers? That’ll work.

 

Jersey Dems Push… Rain Tax!

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Nowhere for the water to go… but another tax will fix it!

(Thanks to “thewhiterabbit” for the news tip)

Closely watching events in Virginia, I missed this story here in my home state: New Jersey Democrats–having just upped the minimum wage to $15 an hour–are looking to enact a “rain tax” (https://www.nj.com/news/2019/02/some-call-it-a-rain-tax-but-it-could-help-nj-fight-floods-and-stop-pollution.html).

Cross the weather off the list of things you thought the Democrats would never tax.

What they want to do is set up a “stormwaters utility” that would assess property owners according to how much of their property is paved over. When it rains, the water can’t soak through the pavement and so wends its way into our streams, our bays, etc., picking up all sorts of pollutants–like herbicides–on the way.

So they want to solve a problem that they created in the first place by paving over every square foot that wasn’t paved over already.

Uh, solution to excessive runoff and ensuing pollution… Stop paving!

If you think this report is a satire–well, it’s not. Republicans are already predicting the next caper will be a snow tax.

In my home town, the disease of building is reaching a crescendo. Vacant lot full of gorgeous wild tulips? Pave it! Put up another high-rise! Imagine the number of people we can jam into this little space, if we just stack them on top of one another! ‘Cause the more people you’ve got crowded into your town, the bigger a big-shot you can be in the Democrat Party. And the more people you’ve got available to tax! It’s going to look like a set from The Hunger Games by the time they’re done with it.

But what do they care? They can afford to wall off their mansions and swimming pools against the unpleasantness outside.

‘Gloom and Doom… in a Commercial’ (2015)

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I haven’t heard one of these “End O’ the World” commercials lately, but they were pretty common a couple of years ago. I can probably guess why they might be less common now. Maybe you can, too.

https://leeduigon.com/2015/01/23/gloom-and-doom-in-a-commercial/

Some people just ain’t happy unless they’re miserable.