The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick

Activity: write a critique using Colombian context

the hanging stranger is a fictitious story  that talks about Edward C. Loyce, a man who discovers one day going to the work  a man hanging from a lamppost and also discover  that he is the only one who can see it  later on as the example of the hanging stranger  he discover that the society is basically manage by aliens that every time are around us and are our government and are in our future but all the people  just seems like if they didn't  care and just think that Loyce needs some mental help , Loyce is the only man in his city who notice this and recognize the truth in front of his eyes.

Here in Colombia we have many examples of the daily life that can be similar with this situations,  this is just like a murder in a neighborhood in Medellin or any place of Colombia  or the elections of the president, mayor or politician, in a murder in a neighborhood maybe everybody can knows who is the killer but just they don't tell anything or give help because they don't look that situation as a personal problem so they don't care even when they can  do something, sadly in this country we are used to see the problems and don't make anything for solving it, it is good for the government to keep in silence the people without any controversial voice they can hear to make the people wake up. and in the second example of the democratic elections here in Colombia we have the problem that a higher porcentaje of the citizens doesn't vote for chose a new president or mayor, they have the excuse of "every candidate is just a corrupt thieve that only steals our money" in some cases this is the true but if that high porcentaje stop being indifferent to choose our leaders and decided to vote would this make the change and show a good democracy demonstrating the people power  (the true democracy meaning) in the country because if we are not join to choose something that involve each person we are just letting our future to the an unknown trash, and maybe they must vote for every citizen have an acceptation about who is going to representing us,  as examples like this in our country we have many we can even go in past to the slavery times when humans intelligence was as a donkey intelligence ,at that time some people was conscious about  the horrible facts of slavery but they just keep in silence ,was just in the independence when the slavery comes down  and the independence was a revolution of people that do not ignore the aliens or the hanging man. everybody has the truth in their eyes but we just can call warriors the ones as Loyce  that have the truth also in their mouths, hearts and actions. but sadly if we remember and analyze the last part of the story only the warriors ends dead after all they fight, this is a reflexión of the story that tells that the briefs ones are the ones who die before everyone, a true  message for society. 

I really like this story because of the message that is behind of all, that calling of don't stay in silence forever for look and analyze in a good future the truth we deserve, no matter if is even the government or the same people who live with us in society the ones who doesn't want let us see it, human beings must be brave and vote , denounce and do not ignore the aliens that are masquerading as humans an also don't ignore the man hanged because by the end surrounding  the whole story and analyzing well the origin of he  we can conclude the hanging stranger is a sign that invokes the destruction of silence and tells us simply that something is not right and someone else in the past pay the consequences of realizing it .We do not know if some day we can become the hanging stranger.