One of my
favorite books of all times is “Watership Down” by Richard Adams. The simple
overview is how the world appears through the eyes of rabbits, but it goes far
beyond that. In the beginning, a
character has a premonition of the destruction of their colony. When he tells his friend of the premonition,
they decide to take the information to the leader, who discredits their
ideas. The characters so believed in the
premonition, they told several other of their friends and decided to leave
their colony before disaster befell upon them.
In their travels, they come upon a colony of rabbits who were larger,
healthier with shiny fur. Their colony
was well protected among blackberry and raspberry brambles within a large pile
of brush, giving them protection from predators and the weather. The characters didn’t understand why these
rabbits were so much larger and healthier until they asked. The rabbits explained a human created their
habitat for them and often left them piles of food, more than enough for the
members of the colony and invited the characters to join the colony. As the days went by, the characters shared
the wealth of the gifts the human had left for them. They felt they had found
their new home but another premonition befell upon them that brought them to be
concerned of their new home. The
premonition brought more fear to all the initial characters than before as they
watched their friend appear to be choking to death. The character awoke from his dream and told
his followers, they were not safe here and must leave. Several of the characters were in disbelief
until the premonition come to pass. One
afternoon while the group were heading to eat from the pile of food the human
had left for them, reality set in. One
of the characters had slipped into a wire noose and as they struggled with the
noose, it tightened and choked the character.
I don’t want
to ruin the story for you, you’ll just have to find the book to find out what
happens, but the point being made is what appears to be happening within our
human country right now. The healthy
colony of rabbits knew of the danger of their colony but were willing to accept
the sacrifice of a false security. They
were willing to accept the gifts from their host but what they thought were
gifts was nothing more than scraps. Many
within our society are just like the rabbits living among brambles in what
they believe is security and are willing to accept the scraps for what they
assume is their security. As our
government draws many to a false security, it prepares a noose to choke our
society into serfdom. Do not allow yourself to be drawn into a false sense of
security by the gifts of government. Remember,
the security for the rabbits was a brush pile in a blackberry and raspberry
bramble and scraps for the many.
So, are you prepared for the noose?
