Increasingly we live our lives in isolation, in varied
states of anxiety and depression. Globalisation and the central tenet of
capitalism that greed is good and money can solve all our problems, is on the
brink of a dreary homogeneity described by George Orwell in 1984. Destroying
the uniqueness of individual communities, cities, countries and natural habitats
will ultimately lead to the destruction of human nature – civilisation – and what
makes it (and us) so wonderful. Even a blind man can see that States all over
the world have eroded our rights to individualism, freedom and privacy in
the name of countering terrorism. Yet we give in meekly, and will soon pay a
high price.
That’s why we need heroes like Henry who live off the
grid, however hard it is, who believe in good and evil and humanity. Men who
need only a toothbrush and the occasional bed.
The revolution and the war are both around the corner. After
the smoke clears we will finally see that capitalism was wrong and the pursuit of
money, futile.
Come Armageddon, come nuclear war…
