Tuesday, October 13, 2009
In What Universe?
What really caught my attention in "The Man in the High Castle" is when Childan is at the Kasouras for dinner and they start to have a conversation about "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy". In this conversation Childan decides, out loud, that "the world would be much worse" if Japan and Germany would not have won the war. No one could possibly know how things would be if Japan and Germany would have won the war, but who's to say that it wouldn't be better? What if Childan was actually right? As of right now we're fighting a morally bankrupt war, there's poverty everywhere, and we just pulled ourselves out of a recession that is still effecting us. Even genocide is present. I'm just wondering- is it really better that we won?
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I think it's better that we won, considering the massive genocide that was taking place in Europe. I'm not saying that the genocide that is present right now isn't of epic proportions, but at least there are people out there trying to end it. If we hadn't won, would there be people trying to stand up for what's right, like there are today?
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