PAGE 18, WEDNESDAY, J ULY 8, 1981, WHITBY 'FREE PRESS "I always voted at my party's cati and never thought of thinking for myself at all." "T" :.%"inf"1%E..""W.S. Gilbert: H.M.S. Pinafore. The dream has gone sour [0MMER[InlR PR I'1Til1G 218 HARWVOOD AVE. S., AJAX SHOPPING PLAZA TELEPHONE: 683-1968 WANTED HOMES IN WHITBY & BROOKLIN FOR PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS. REAL ESTATE FEE CALL 668-0515 ASTON BRUMLEY REAL ESTATE LTD. "There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner." H.L. Mencken. THE PLANET OF THE ZOMBIES Apart from Scotch, steaks and sex, one of the greatest joys of being on this planet is to explore and admire the works of the thousands of brilliant, imaginative, creative and wise minds both contem- porary and ancient. Though too many humans are zombies, a few humans are magnificent. I've always loved those words of Shakespeare that go: "What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how ex- press and admirable! In action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a godi" etc., etc. Would that most of our co-habitants of this planet fitted the above description; I've always been a sucker for Utopian speculations. The trouble is that the finest minds are never listened to by the over- whelming masses of zombies on this planet. Zombie elect zombies for leaders. Today everyone sensible has recognized that the "Great American Dream" has withered into a sick joke. What with our falling dollar, our sinking living standards, increasing vandalism, violence, crime, ever greater pollution of the biosphere, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the escalation of the cold war, the "balance of terror" and the growing threat of World War Three and the final holocaust, one can almost feel the four horsemen of the Apocalypse breathing down one's neck. For our world to get into such an incredible mess right in the middle of history's greatest technological advances, in the middle of the elec- tronic-computer age when our knowledge-explosion is promising the greatest riches for the human race that could ever be dreamed of, it simply must mean that there are too many zombies in power on this planet. Only zombies can turn heaven into hell. More and more of our contemporary scholars are forecasting greater and greater world-shattering stupidity in world affairs. Instead of. Utopian novels, the prominent thinkers are writing anti- Classified Ads Sel Call 668-6111 Utopias such as George Orwell's "19A4" and C. Wright Mills' "The Causes of World War Three". Cynical and pessimistic evaluations of western society are proliferating in books such as "The Generation of Vipers" by Phiip Wylie, "The War- fare State" and "The Corrupted Land" by Fred J. Cook. Books such as these make thinking people feel like saying, "Stop the world, I want to get off!1" The worst part of the problem here is that the world is amply supplied with brilliant and sincere persons who could become great leaders to guide the world into the millenium, but the masses always seem to prefer offering power to the HitIers, Stalins, Richard Nixons, Ayatollah Khomeinis, Ronald Reagans, Brezhnevs and other such turkeys. Why are the masses such sheep?! It is written that a nation of sheep shall have wolves for their leaders. If we try to explain this in terms of bird metaphors, it seems that among the masses the doves and the wise owls are outnumbered by turkeys, buzzards and chickens so that naturally more hawks get elected than doves or owls. But on- ce the hawks have the power in their claws, they make most of the birds turn into chickens and dodos. Little wonder that Orwell wrote: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stam- ping on a human face forever." They are trying to turn us all into obedient zom- bies with such slogans as "Corne on people, let's keep the promise." Orwell's slogans of "1984" are brilliant: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." The zombie voters far out- number the wide-awake, astute, well-informed thinking citizens. And since this situation keeps get- ting us into countless disastrous wars, world-wide hunger and poverty amid untold riches, it must mean that our one hope of escaping a hell on earth is to encourage the average voter to become less of a mindless zombie and more of a thinker, so that the government of the zombies by the zombies against the thinking men may perish from the earth. We should all do more serious thinking on this, more self-criticism, less. knee-jerk politics, more searching, reading and more looking at both sides of every argument. In the U.S. the "Moral Majority", so-called, has collected millions of dollars from the zombie masses in the name of Jesus and has used them to elect into power a squadron of hawks. Al the good Archie Bunker-type Americans believe the slogans of the immoral minority that calls itself the "Moral Majority". Such primitive thinking among the masses could be the death of us all! Only by realizing that a billion people can be wrong even on our side of the iron curtain will we ensure a longer reprieve from a possible, final Ar- mageddon. The awful truth is that there is an even chance that the zombies will continue to outnumber the thinking people, and they'll turn the earth into the planet of the cockroaches. Special camp for kids There are still places available for this summer's Christmas Seal Day Camp at Camp Samac, Oshawa. The facility is offered to children between five and nine years who have asthma or other recurrent respiratory problems, and will operate weekdays bet- ween Monday, July 13 and Friday, July 24. Children with breathing problems frequently miss many ordinary childhood pleasures, and the main objective of the Christ- mas Seal Summer Camp is to demonstrate that, with only a little extra care, these children can participate as fully in active sum- mer pasttimes as their non-asthmatic friends. Door-to-door bus transportation is available for children resident in Whitby. Registration fees for the two week period are $20 per child (with tran- sportation) or $12.50 per child (without transpor- tation). For more information on this Christmas Seal Service, call Durham Region Lung Association at 723-3151 as soon as possible.