MONSTERS: A modern social construct

In the 1956 sci-fi movie “Forbidden Planet,” Altair-4, a planet in the constellation Aquilae, was once inhabited by an alien race of geniuses, the Krell. They built a great machine to create anything the Krell could imagine.

The Krell forgot one thing, however: Monsters from the Id. Their own base subconscious desires, given free rein and unlimited power by the machine, brought about their quick extinction.

An argument could be made that we’ve created a great machine in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram that have unleashed the monsters of the Id. Considering the hostile ever-deepening abyss in our national politics through increasing uncivility toward each other we’re unwittingly participating in the extinction of American democracy.

MIKE BLACKBIRD

Post Falls