There’s a couple kinds of destroyers, I notice. There’s the Animal Farm kind, people betrayed by leadership in Washington D.C. as Orwell’s book of that name clearly proclaimed is the natural result of placing too much confidence in human beings. Then, there is the broader-based agents of destruction with which we are at war.

One force destroying human happiness as far as I can see, is the systematization of everything. Systems designed to serve us, presumably, via modern technology create in their wake an impossible labyrinth of pages and links to navigate. When my 8 track tape malfunctioned in the eighties, the tape inside tangled up into a knotted mess. Nowadays, when a computer or cell phone malfunctions, I need to navigate the millions of pages and links to decipher the problem.

Technology has its own language. Soon, our culture will be entirely defined by advanced technology written in an unknown language to non-techies. A tech tyranny so-to-speak managed and maintained by teenagers!

The power that corrupts people with the best intentions like in the Animal Farm scenario, is now in the hands of young and very young people. Though it is not political power, it is cultural power none-the-less. And, Who do they work for primarily?

In the Animal Farm story (for those who don’t know it), the animals were deprived the benefit of owning private property. So, they conspired to steal the farm from their brutish master. Once achieved, members elected representatives to go to local government to protect their interests from powerful farmers. Unfortunately, those leaders became as corrupt, tyrannical, and dissolute as their previous master. So, the animals rose up again and destroyed their farm.

Orwell was a socialist likely, because he did not consider freedom to own property was the missing key in the animals scenario. If the animals were free to buy their own farm, then they wouldn’t have had to murder the landowner.

In our world today, there are unhappy destroyers whose lives are being stolen by powerful interests who are destroying their way of life. Our Constitution used to protect us from monopolies and foreign ownership of land- to prevent the Bill Gates’ and Chinese aspirations in our nation. Seems the destroyers are destroying that idea, too.

The scenario of teenagers running a tech tyranny may seem terrifying. But, power can be used for good or for evil as we see in both scenarios I mentioned. It may just be the powerful and unseen force of young people that can save this nation from total corporate control and systematization which is destroying everything.