Today, Dissidents post on oil and conspiracy got me to thinking about how complex some problems really are.  I can recall reading a great deal of literature during my obsenely expensive military high school education.  At the time my feeling was that the professors were using us in some sort of secret government experiment to see how many $10.00 words you can get a lab rat to remember and use in an appropriate context.  The stories were full of big fat never before seen words, practailly a foerign language to a 14 year old.  Not foerign, just words to help facilitate class seperation and identification.  Vocabulary is an important part of  the unofficial US social caste system.  Think I'm crazy, consider Afrikkanns and what that was all about.  

One of the best stories I read at the academy and since then is An Enemy of the State by Heinrick Ibson.  It's an old play but the interesting thing about it is that it remains as relevant today as when it was written.  I highly recomend reading it and thinking about it in a contemporary context..  Ibson was not writing about the plight of one man who's good deed did not go unpunnished.  He uses just one example of a pandemic problem in human nature, greed and how government justifies whatever they want to suit their need at the moment. 

It's a good read, 4 stingers up.  If we all happen to read AEOTP, it will undoubtadly be a starting point for a very deep podcast.

The story can be found at  http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2446

Project Guttenberg is an awesome place to find all sorts of reading material.  The best part, IT'S ALL FREE and legit.  I reccomend using it and supporting it if you can.