Big Brother you say?

So last month there was that whole missing plane dilemma. For those of you that don't follow the news (what the heck is wrong with you? Be a good demcractic citizen!), I will summarize.

So this plane took off in Malaysia and while flying over the ocean the transponders lost contact with the plane, and since then no one knows what happened. Now I had to sit through a long family dinner listening to my crazy relatives talk conspiracy theories about how it must have been hijakced by terrorists.

Come on now, let's be real. It's a freaking plane. Didn't anybody stop and think hey, maybe something on the plane broke that made it lose signal? I mean our phones and computers have glitches all the time, why not the plane's tracking system?

It seems to me that in our post-9/11 world, everyone is so quick to assume that any horrible event must be the work of terrorism. Now maybe I'm just an optimist, but people need to chill out.

So I was reading 1984 for a politics class and our paper topic was to compare some aspect of the book to the world today. Hopefully most of you have read 1984 seeing as it is typically a high school requirement. In the book, the world is controlled by a totalitarian government that threatens and scares the people, and has them under constant surveillance. There is no freedom and people exist solely to serve the needs of the government.

The people are paranoid. Why shouldn't they be? Their government is watching them 24/7 with the intent to catch them in rebellious acts. Are we not paranoid ourselves? Ever since 9/11 everyone is under this fear that anyone foreign who looks dangerous must be a terrorist. Well y'all need to take some Xanex. I think that technology is something we need to fear more than foreigners. Now I'm not talking Terminator here, I just mean that we shouldn't be trusting technology so much that we assume a missing plane is more likely the work of a terrorist group than that something with the plane itself went wrong.

Granted, it could be terrorism, who knows? But the crazies out there need to take a chill pill and calm themselves before the go running around saying that the plane was hijacked and everyone is dead. Hey, maybe they found a private island and are roasting pigs and having luaus. Okay, probably not, but it's possible right?