Posted on 03/20/2013 1:13:41 PM PDT by Mozilla
What is amazing to me is the fact that folks actually think that the people on the “gubmit” are somehow smarter than we are.
Given that the vast majority of our congresscritters are failed lawyers who couldn’t successfully convict a videotaped murderer, from whence does this belief come?
As did Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead)........et al......
George Orwell saw the future of our Government
Aldous Huxley saw the future of our society.
That people elected to the government are smarter than the rest of the population is a tenet of leftist ideology and a natural conclusion of the humanist religion.
I re-started 1984 this morning.
It’s prescient.
Orwell didn’t “have it right”.
His book was a story with a warning. Most people who read it, figured that out.
The problem was SOME people, libtards specifically, read it, and regarded it not as a warning, but AS A BLUEPRINT they decided to enact.
Orwell only appears to have it right because some people read the book and thought “Let’s Do That!” and went about doing that. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, these people didn’t think of it on their own.
It is amazing how so much of what Ayn wrote we are living today. Almost word for word.
I’ve recently reconnected with a bunch of high school class mates. 1984 was required reading. I must have been the only one who didn’t think it was a guidebook! I’ve never seen such a bunch of ill informed lefties.
Yeas indeed. Both books, Brave New World and 1984, have predicted the future correctly as well as Atlas Shrugged. I might add Fahrenheit 451 in their as well because it predicts a future where people can’t dissent and book burning is all the rage. They lead meaningless lives.
Our population is made of people who are ill informed and dumbed down by society.
“George Orwell saw the future of our Government
Aldous Huxley saw the future of our society.”
Spot on.
But don’t forget Mike Judge, Idiocracy.
She had a good perspective, growing up in early Soviet Russia......
FROM WIKI:
She was twelve at the time of the February Revolution of 1917, during which she favored Alexander Kerensky over Tsar Nicholas II.
The subsequent October Revolution and the rule of the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin disrupted the comfortable life the family had previously enjoyed. Her father’s pharmacy business was confiscated and the family displaced.
Our population is made of people who are ill informed BY A GOVERNMENT-MEDIA COMPLEX and dumbed down by GOVERNMENT-EDUCATION COMPLEX.......
Huxley wins hands down.
Mike Judge only a close second since he came after Huxley.
Huxley was right on the money. Sex is for kids but the state owns us all.
If I recall this correctly.
Wasn’t it a semi-famous Darwinist/Humanist that said the only reason he accepted evolutionary theory was for the sex?
So did Anthony Burgess when he wrote A Clockwork Orange.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4C6xkjMqdg
Aldous and his brother Juilien (1st Dir. of UNESCO) were absolutely disgusting human beings. Why is it that the “humanists” are the ones that want to wipe out most the humans?
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