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Remember George Lucas's enigmatic feature film THX 1138 starring Robert Duvall, set in a compliant world where efficiency overrides every other aspect of human life, where people are reduced to code names and their lives are contained, monitored, and manipulated for the sake of the system. The movie is set around a couple who defies the system by not only starting an affair, but by trying to escape to the the outside world. Heaven forbid having to think for yourself or to lift a finger to be self reliant. This past week there was a real episode of what happens in a very real system when people are taught to behave like sheep, to mind their own affairs and just go along with the system, it's straight out of George Orwell's 1984. The apparently unprovoked assault by a 40 year old passengr against a 22 year old passenger on a Canadian Greyhound bus left 36 men, women and children stranded Wednesday night on the shoulder of the darkening Trans-Canada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba., watching while the bus driver and a driver of a nearby truck shut the crazed attacker inside the bus with the mangled victim. Let's see here, you're riding along on the bus and this attack takes place, nobody attempts to stop the attacker, the bus driver sees something happening, stops the bus and they all get off, what sheer courage and bravery they all exhibited, but that is not all, they bravely locked the perpetrator and the victim inside the bus until the RCMP showed up to arrest the attacker. The attacker did kill the man in front of all those passengers who so bravely reacted to the crisis and he was charged Friday with second-degree murder. In Canada that could mean a psychiatric hospital exam, a period of treatment where he's miraculously cured ready to ride that bus again. Thirty six additional passengers, men,(I use that term loosely), women and children and not one soul steps foward to help another passenger. Quite a system we have evolved for mankind and quite a society we have devolved into. We sheeple haven't progressed much since the time of Cain and Abel it seems. Genesis 4:1-16.