Atlas Shrugged

Tired of the weight of responsibility he simply shrugged. With disdain the world responded, led by the fervour of newly converted zealots, earth day they mumbled.

When oil ran dry, and the flick no longer produced a light, when food started rotting in white cupboards sealing in stinking decay, they started to notice. When more and more people roamed the streets and stopped to smell the flowers and listened for the song of the crickets while inboxes returned undelivered mail and postboxes burst open with unopened mail, something inside them stirred.

Shops closed and never reopened, banks stopped banking, credits stopped crunching and borders dissolved. We animals were left to fend for ourselves as the term government no longer instilled trust not that it did in the first place. Finally the state its religions and its gods gave up trying to speak to the world, trying to change this world.

The silence was strained at first but slowly we became accustomed to the quiet. Cell phones and with them that well bred sense of urgency we had succomed to in the last days also dissapeared. Could you imagine a life sans urgent immediacy? Life without now now now but a life in the now?

Atlas shurgged all right, and took with him all the vestiges of this realm to which we had begun accrediting ourselves of the soul and of spirit. The framework had started to define the content, atlas was the tail and we were its dogs…Can you imagine a life without loreal revitalising lift cream or brad pitt or pep?

Yes we can! Let the shrug begin so that people like myself, a cronic bystander, a tip toeing leveller, simple simon, a simon says can be jolted into inaction and be accredited with the mass genocide of the individual spirit, because people like me are scared. We dont face our fears, we run we dont walk, we hide, we beg we borrow and we steal, all in the name of peace. Joy to the world and all her pieces.

I hate shaving under my arms but I do, hate using diapers for lela but i do, hate throwing away food leaving a tap running but i do i do i do. Can we change…yes we can.