PC Dystopia Where Children Sing ‘Amazing Self’
by Julian Mann, VOL:
In the year 2035, the Secretary of State for Young Citizens’ Empowerment introduced a mandatory anthem to be sung daily in every school. Children noticed not singing it were to be reported to the authorities as potential extremists:
Amazing Self – how sweet the sound
That launched a star like me!
With my potential I have found
My real identity
‘Twas Self that moved my heart to sing
And Self my dream to be lived;
How I boosted my self-esteeming
The hour I first believed
When we’ve been here for billions of years
Bright shining as the sun
We’ve no less days to sing Self’s praise
Than when we’ve first begun
John Newton (http://www.anointedlinks.com/amazing_grace.html), the author of the celebrated hymn Amazing Grace, was born in London docklands in 1725, the son of a merchant ship commander. He went to sea himself at the age of 11.
In 1744 he was press-ganged into service on a man-of-war, the HMS Harwich which he deserted because of the intolerable conditions. He was recaptured, publicly flogged and humiliatingly demoted. Even before he joined the slave trade, he had become a hardened, hard-drinking, hard-swearing 18th century seafarer. He eventually became captain of his own slaving vessel and it was during a homeward voyage from Sierra Leone that his ship hit a violent storm during which he cried out to God for mercy.
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