Ender's Discretion: A Short Story

Fox, CNN, The New York Times, The White House press secretary, The Wall Street Journal, Mouth to Ear, Books, Google, all ways to get you information fast and reliably. But the information they give isn’t always the whole truth. What tidbit of information the media leaves out to what page they are on is all at their own discretion, and all the more intentional. You can only hear what the major sources of information want you to hear, because the media biases their information. A practice often executed today.

“‘That monitor is going to come out today. We're going to just take it right out, and it won't hurt a bit.’ Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt,

“ Dink says “Believe what?” says Ender. Belief, When oneself accepts that something is true, like the sky is blue and the grass is green. Ender is a very smart person now, top of his class and the best soldier in battle school, able to beat every challenge that is thrown at him. But what he is about to hear is something he couldn't have even considered until now. "The Bugger menace...” It's all a fake. There is no war, and they're just screwing around with us." Dink is telling Ender that the school they are attending to train the to fight the alien Buggers, is all for nothing. "But why?" asks Ender "Because as long as people are afraid of the Buggers, the IF can stay in power, and as long as the IF is in power, certain countries can keep their hegemony.” Answers Dink. The International Federation (Aka IF) has been misleading the government that the Buggers are a threat to global security, for as long as the Buggers are a threat, the IF remains in power. And a hegemony is when a country rules over multiple others, the IF has been exploiting their hegemony to teach children from birth that the buggers are a threat to the safety of the world. When the Buggers came the Warsaw pact was initiated and unified the world to pool resources to fight them off, but the pact only lasts if the Buggers are a threat, which they aren't. The Warsaw pact is actually a real pact created in 1955 that allowed Russia’s to request help from its neighboring

Ender was given another game, a “Simulation” where Ender gave orders to a number of starships to complete a goal, whether it was to destroy all enemies or some other objective. Ender won every game against all odds, Finally ender was given his last test, 80 allied starfighters vs upwards of 10,000 enemy ships surrounding a planet. Hardly a fair fight, but Ender was armed with a special weapon, the Little Doctor. A bomb that breaks apart atoms at their core and does the same to every nearby atom within a certain radius. Ender directed the fleet to divebomb the planet with his fighters all armed with the bombs, they let them loos and the planet. Utterly destroying the entire planet and all of the fighters, Ender rejoices until he is told he was never playing a game, that all of the starships had people and that he had just command and won the third invasion against an alien race, killing them all and their homeworld with them. This is his