The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick

Colombian Context

 "They have the whole town. The City Hall and the police station. They hung a man from the lamppost” - The Hanging Stranger; Philip K. Dick

Something is taking the whole town…

Is an alien invasion? Is product of our minds? Or is only a real situation, happening to real people in a real country?

Is not product of our mind, is not that we are ill, and the solution is not go to the doctor because we are talking about something that is not real.

Sadly here is so common see how the people must face a lot of problems because of those ones that with them corruption are becoming rich mean while they are making the people poor. Those ones that already take the City Hall, the police station, the transportation services, the system of health and the educational system, all things that compound a society are already stained by that “unknown” thing that is surrounding us since long time ago.

“They take over one area at a time. Starting at the top—the highest level of authority. Working down from there in a widening circle. When they're firmly in control they go on to the next town. They spread, slowly, very gradually. I think it's been going on for a long time."

"A long time?"

"Thousands of years. I don't think it's new."

-The Hanging Stranger; Philip K. Dick

Each day for a normal person is more difficult to obtain at least the necessary things we need for survive and that is because something is wrong here, because the injustice is getting big and the equality is disappearing.  

But the corruption is not the only problem, we must notice also that while this is happening in front of the eyes of all people some of us are blind, we do not notice that we have to do something to put an end to this situation that is surrounding us.

I really do not know which problem is bigger here… The corruption of the ones in the upper part of the hierarchy, or the ignorance of people that notice it and do not do anything.

"And the strange part was that nobody else seemed to notice it" - The Hanging Stranger; Philip K. Dick

Bibliography:

• americanliterature.com/author/philip-k-dick/short-story/the-hanging-stranger