An Early Prediction

It will start as a protest; a general murmur among the populace voiced reasonably to their government. From there, they will be ignored until they start to become intolerant of their governments ignoring them. They will protest louder and stronger and with more fire and the military and police will be called in to keep them in line. It won't be clear who drew first blood, whether law enforcement or civilian. Tensions will be high on both sides and nobody will remember or even care. Neither side will come out on top of that initial skirmish; the peace will be reigned in, but it will be an uneasy peace; the type that weighs heavily in the air with foreboding.

The populace will not stoop to acts of protest any further at that point, but turn into the 'terrorists' that the government tried to 'protect' us from; the people dissatisfied with our governments policies and moralistic integrity. They will strike the first real blow against the government and force it to play its hand in turning the US into a police state.

People will see, then, just how much the government controls, from our cell phones to our computer to our vehicles to our very homes and our lives. The revolution will have already begun by that point though, and those who lacked the wit to be informed will be trying to play catch up as everything gets escalated beyond control.

The people will do what they do best and resort to guerrilla warfare tactics of hit and run and then blending back into the scenery; the government, too, will have its victories in the form of live executions of those individuals caught and ousted.

Homes will be burnt, city blocks demolished; everything short of nuclear power will be used and even some new technology thrown into the mix that people are currently unexpecting, but shouldn't be too surprised by. This is unavoidable. People will try to avoid it, but they will find that all routes lead to it due to other peoples pigheadedness and unwillingness to step down from power or to give up what they worked so hard to corrupt.

many scared people who were never meant to see war will die; caught in the crossfire; many people who never were made for such dark things will witness horror embodied in man and fall back from the sight as if struck dead and still others will fight against family and friend as sides are chosen and fiercely protected in ignorance and deception.

Woe becomes the species that chose knowledge over happiness; and through knowledge have pursued that satisfaction which only ignorance can give. Through knowledge trying to cheat that which can not be cheated, while even the ignorant gloat of their wisdom in seeing the futility of. Though knowledge be chosen, ignorant they remain; neither fully remaining ignorant nor choosing to fully embrace knowledge; they twist along the nether of the middle ground, bumbling and stumbling like so many fools caught up in fancies of running errands for the Gods.

Woe becomes the species that corrupts instead of purifies; which pushes down the good to exalt the bad; which places their own personal needs and well being above those of all other animals on the planet; this species that has the knowledge and power to rise above and be as a loving brother in the guidance of all others. And until knowledge and enlightenment is pursued to its final destination...

Woe becomes us.