I kind of liked that short story. It seems in reality people are always hiding something from the government and other people, and the government hiding things from the people, and then there are those of us stuck in the middle of society questioning "what is the truth of the matter"?
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The idea of the story was inspired by an article about a US politician making statements you would expect from militant animal rights activists. I tried to explore the idea of what could happen as worst case scenario if a militant animal right activists were to become president of a nucleair superpower.
The hazards of local popularism (made up word I think). I am popular, so only my opinion counts = he is popular so only his opinion counts, so we must vote for him/her/it. What do you know I didn't make up the word.
A simple google search.
But yeah, when we as a group get to big, then things tend to fall apart to the vocal, (very vocal in some cases), popularism think.
Society seems to be collapsing in on itself, while trying to be everything to everyone. I don't think it is the people that are lost, but the idea of society that has been lost.