"No one watches and they don't have a game. It's as simple as that..."

That is a line from the novel and movie The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It is a quote that I look back to as a line that must be taken in order for there to be real change in the world. If people refuse to participate, if they refuse to watch, if they refuse to allow politicians to constantly degrade human existence to rules and regulations, acts of terror and murder on a grand scale, we may be able to salvage our freedom yet.

But is this is a pipe dream? As we have seen in the past there are always those willing to participate in the games as the rule makers and the rule keepers. Mao had loyal soldiers to enforce his rule, even if the citizens refused, the state still had it's enforcers. Hitler was also privy to the mindlessness of the authoritarians he ranked to his police and military to keep the state and its machine like authority moving in goose-step. The smallest of groups against the mass of citizens, once indoctrinated and made to fear the state, could manipulate control of the citizens.

If people realized the simple fact that in order for the State or the Government to remain in control, for it to impose its immorality and its own unjust laws, it must have willing participants. It must retain power out of fear and it can only remain in power by force and coercion. Willing and delusional authoritarians have in the past joined the ranks of oppressive governments, and if this past is any picture of the future we have much to fear and much to change.