"Leave me alone, I don't have time for that political nonsense!" 
the fox said.  "I worked all day and I'm tired and I want to go 
home and relax!"

"Look, I'm tired too," the eagle said.  "We're all tired!  But 
we've all got to get together, and storm the capitol, and demand 
change---demand they do something---and if they don't do 
something, at once, then physically throw them out of there!  If 
we let them stay even a few more months they'll ruin this forest 
forever!"

"Ohhhh, you're crazy!  Go away!  Leave me alone!"

When at the end of the work day you're too exhausted to think, to 
protest, to get angry, to do anything more than sit in front of 
your television and watch a situation comedy ...

They've got you where they want you, and you've gotten exactly 
what you deserve.


THE POLITY OF BEASTS

(c) 2007

The politically incorrect novel the New York Times refused to 
review.