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    Sleeping Beauties
    Sleeping Beauties
    Sleeping Beauties
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    Sleeping Beauties

    By Sussan Khadem

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    'Sleeping Beauties' is a short novella designed to be read by individuals who are time poor, yet still caring enough to think critically about personal and political matters. I chose the on-line self-publishing forum so that more people would be able to access this document and in order to restrict outside interference. This is my story. These are my words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSussan Khadem
    Release dateApr 15, 2016
    ISBN9781310341342
    Sleeping Beauties
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    Sussan Khadem

    Sussan Khadem is an Australian writer interested in resistance literature.

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      Sleeping Beauties - Sussan Khadem

      Sleeping Beauties

      By

      Sussan Khadem

      Acknowledgements

      The following manifesto, a combination of polemics and conversations I have had with people, was significantly inspired by Beyoncé Knowles’ powerful YouTube music video clip ‘iSlay.’ (2016).

      I would also like to thank my students for their inspiration, love and support.

      Chapter One:

      Sweet Dreams are Made of This

      ‘Some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused.’

      Annie Lennox (1983), Marilyn Manson (2009).

      Sex, or at least, the suggestion of sex, is the number one seller of all items. Love is most likely to be next. Most of what we do in a day is motivated by these desires, a desire to accumulate wealth, a desire to gain and achieve more recognition, an ability to give airs of wealth and to present ourselves as somehow being more composed than what we really are. The linguistics we use subconsciously give away more of ourselves than we are aware and can alert others to the nature of our preoccupations and to our hidden desires and curiosities. The next generation of youth will find themselves in challenging situations, as technology becomes more advanced, the youth will need to be protected by the law, and the law will need to be sound, without a sound law to protect the future generations, the poor, the women, and the children will be further silenced and the masses shall grow to become an oppressed nation of zombies. Art will be censored, films and music will become an amalgamation incapable of expressing truisms and the powerless citizens of the globe will be rendered obsolete. Outside of all worldly features is a force greater than us, it is something which is both, inside and outside of, religion. The great bard of the Elizabethan period, William Shakespeare, referred to this exterior force as the stars which govern our trajectories and send us on our paths and destinies. Shakespeare often referred to this external force in his immortal works of fiction as the pulling or driving force which compels characters to move forward. The French call this force majeure.

      ‘It was love at first sight,’ says your employer.

      He tells people he loved you from the first moment he saw you. That this declaration makes you feel uncomfortable is one thing, that it causes other people to feel uncomfortable is another thing. His is a force to be reckoned with, and it throws people off their very journeys.

      It reminds you of the time you were working as a sales assistant in Melbourne, Australia and the manager confessed that it was always the white guys in suits who did the most stealing and that they were undetected, because they were the least suspected. There is something prophetic in this assertion and this is something which Orwell himself warned us about in his dystopian works of fiction.

      Dystopian fiction imagines a world where we are constantly being watched and that even our very thoughts and feelings will be monitored so that any hint of dissidence against a police state can be nullified and oppressed before the workers have the ability to articulate their thoughts and express an opinion against the governing state.

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