Hunger Games: The common folk resisted the rich arrogant fascist tyrants (similar to the French Revolution)
Star Wars: The Rebel Alliance rose up against the dogmatic "kindness is a weakness" religion that controlled the military industrial complex.
The Matrix: The common folk rejected a futuristic super-overlord AI mastermind that turned them into batteries.
Divergent: Chicago has 5 different stereotypes, and if you don't fit in any (are divergent) you will be an outsider.
V for Vendetta: An autocratic fascist society with a dictator rulership gets overthrown by a masked avenger/anarchist with a passion for using the letter V and references bombing the English parliament.
In nearly every story listed here, it's about the small/weak resisting the megacorporations/arrogant narcissist dictators/religious/cults of personality that through megalomania want to rule the world.
Which side, exactly, do you honestly consider yourself belonging to?
This is a map of the Province of Ontario.
The Greenbelt is a sliver of land in the context of the Province. I was going to draw it on the map but it was as thin as a pencil line at this scale. But an important pencil line - it is the richest farmland in the entire province. It is also the Carolinian forest - which contains an extremely high biodiversity of species, over 500 of which are considered rare on a global scale.
The Greenbelt was created to ensure we didn't pave over this rich farmland. It was created to halt sprawl.
The #GreenbeltGrab has never been about a shortage of land. Look at this Province! There is so much abundant land that isn't Greenbelt.
The #GreenbeltGiveaway has never been about building housing, either. It is about the profit, the uplift in value, that comes from re-designating agricultural land to residential land.
Uplift in value. At the expense of prime, irreplaceable agricultural land. That's what this is about.
Saw this sign yesterday & thought to myself “Imagine if it said NO HST on all purpose built rental housing!” The Federal government has been offered this pathway for months now to help, and yet nothing. These projects continue to be stalled, or cancelled outright. Get it done!
Lovely piece by @VivekKatju on learning about his daughter's sexual orientation and processing a gamut of emotions - shock, pain, disbelief and confusion which slowly led to acceptance and pride.