In the wake of all that happened in Texas, and all that happened in the SCOTUS, I watched Atlas Shrugged: Part 1. I haven’t read the book (I know, I know, *wrist slap*), but watching it got me on a bit of an overload of emotion, and I have to get this overload out all over Tumblr, as one does. 

So, one of the many overall emotions of this movie was a sense of…loss. Chaos. The US government going batshit crazy, with thousands of DC Fat Cats controlling everything while the majority of the population suffered in a pre-apocalyptic sort of waste. This theme — that our government will overrun us, destroy us, and control us — is not an unusual theme, and is one I’ve seen in a lot, a lot, of movies/books/shows, as I’m sure you all have. Understandably so — it’s a natural fear, that people stronger/more powerful than ourselves will seize our lives in a way that we can neither control nor stop. And for the most part, these fears can stay safely in our TV sets, in our movies, and we can brush it all off at a safe distance and go on with our lives. 

Every so often, something happens that makes those fears real and close — a terrorist attack, a slump in the economy, a law that restricts freedoms — and we gobble up those movies and shows with a new reason — anticipation. Some small part of us wants to feel like we’re prepared, in case our world really does crap out, because those movies are all too real, all too close, all too possible, and it terrifies the snot out of us that we can’t do anything to stop it.

But as Wendy Davis proved, as the SCOTUS proved, that is a complete load of bullshit.

We CAN stop it. We are proving how united we truly are, growing in our resolve and our confidence in what we believe, and as a group we are getting more and more capable of stopping horrific events like economic implosions, horrific laws, and unnecessary wars. We are gaining momentum — we being the majority of people who always get the short end of the stick in pre/post apocalyptic movies, the ones who flop around in poverty while the powerful people dance on our misfortune. We being the ones who are gathering together, developing our voices, telling ourselves and all who will listen that we are more than carcasses on which Fat Cats feed.

So when movies/TV shows/books come out that depict the world crumbling into chaos, the “little people" getting squashed beneath powerful boots, we should not be afraid of this eventuality. We should not fear being swept into oblivion while a select few remain on top.

Because we are becoming strong enough to stop this from ever happening, and the powerful ones should fear us.