Out of the shadows, into tears

When reading these pages I was reminded of a short story I had read in high school. It entailed a town in which everyone was happy. They enjoyed the best form of happiness in forms that could only be compared to heaven. Not a moment of sadness and not a moment they were not in joy. When the citizens come to a certain age they are taken to a room and shown a child in much agonizing pain. The child is constantly in that state and has been for his life. They are told that this is the  reason why they enjoy their happiness becouse this child suffers for  them. This child has been tortured, will be tortured, and the town will continue in happiness and not change. Every some years there are those that learn the truth, and walk away.

We come to an age in which we are shown the truth and some times we recede to the fact that ignorance is bliss. I am personally guilty of it when I went watched many differant independent documentaries until finally all the realizations of the world's problem wass to much to handle for one winter break that is meant to be fun. When we analyze the truth that is hid from us, we must also try to analyze if knowing would  actually give a venue for change, or would we rather not know and just carry on. Can we live in Iowa knowing that the home for Corn may be root of some world problems like world hunger, energy dependance, poverty, false input markets that we are relient on, and increasing cancer. Most of you may think all of these claims are out there, but these problems do have ties to our own home town of Iowa. If you knew these problems is why we have cheap food, gas, soda's, and other goods while also providing many jobs, would you walk away.     Taking this to the next level, their is a large group that believes that 9/11 was an inside operation carried out by the United States in order to take the U.S. to the next level and keep it way ahead in the global economy by increasind executive privilidge and foreign ocupations in lands with vital rescources. Since this is even harder to ever believe,  if this was true, would America want to know? Should other nations around the World know? What harm is it to cover up and move on?  With the atrocity that America may have done, would we continue to live there in happiness or would we walk away?