Book Review: The Warehouse | Freedom is yours until you give it up

The Warehouse

by Rob Hart

An open ending story, yea, it's a novel, again.

The world come into the future, yet it's a much more struggle life there, with the economy and politics being monopoly by the biggest organization (or we say it group?) in the world - The Cloud. 

People happy when they get a job in Cloud, yet some group of people realize that Cloud is the root cause of why the world is having the economic recession. People started by satisfy, comfort, adjusting their life & satisfaction by comparing to the poor & to the outsider. And in the same time people start struggling and pushing down Cloud, to hope for a fair and normal life style. 

This story express nowadays adult's world. The world of being in comfort zone, the world of being compromise, the world that trying to lower down the expectation when the other said "you are lucky". 

It's quite a sad story, and we can see how the 2 main characters significantly different in thinking/satisfaction level, yet they loved each other. 

There are few realistic statements in this book that might hit into our face, by compromising onto our current job, our current life. 

That's life. And that's a story. A novel. 

Quotes

• Make it possible
• No one hands you anything in this life.
• A job has to be something you earn. It’s not something that’s just going to get handed to you.
• Ideas are dangerous.
• He was burning the daylight of his life while they remained empty.
• Sleep is for people who lack ambition.
• It has been an honor to live this life.
• it wasn’t that you forgot it, not really, it just became a part of the background noise of your life.
• This place was designed to take away choice. It was designed to beat you into submission.
• Remember, freedom is yours until you give it up
• When elephant trainers catch a baby elephant in the wild, they tie it to a tree. That baby elephant fights and thrashes to break free, but it’s not strong enough. Within a couple of days, it gives up. So even as the elephant gets bigger, it doesn’t believe it can break the rope. And then you get a full-grown elephant tied to a tree with a piece of rope it could snap with a simple swing of its leg. It’s called learned helplessness.