I'm in the middle of reading the hunger Games. I just thought this was funny and ironic. Here is this story about a completely out of control police state, and even in this story, in this setting, they have the freedom to sell raw goats milk.
Its around page 270 in the Hunger Games. Just wanted to share.
I enjoyed the books :)
Well, I think a lot of writer-types picture government oppression as originating from "the right", i.e. as (in the words of Thomas Sowell) hostile or paranoid emotions getting raised to such a pitch as to override rationality. In other words, oppression is caused by grumpy xenophobes, not over-eager do-gooders. They don't think of oppression as the extreme of food-banning nanny-statism, and as such "benevolent" government meddling is unrelated to real, dangerous oppression.
It just reminds me, that something so sick and twisted, as the Hunger Games story, can only happen on a MASSIVE SCALE and NO ONE CAN ACT LIKE ITS ABNORMAL with government involvement.
Is anyone else getting a 1984 feel from the hunger Games book?