Just as Winston from 1984 realized the only thing that mattered was the present and the party. Even today as I listened to Rush Limbaugh's guest host it isn't the tyrant we are fearing, it is the totalitarian.
As technocrats attempt to control the narrative and what we can say or think, there's calls now from the New York Times of a Truth Czar.
Most transparent and fair election ever. Today, unfortunately.
my favorite 1984 quotes:
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodox.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Excellent article. Deserves to be read in full.
There’s also a lot of premonition in the “Hunger Games” novels.
DC is looking more like the Capitol every day.
Orwell was an optimist.
Thought I’d read them all on this topic, but this article is excellent. Well worth the time. Thank you.
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We are in 2084!
In his text "The Republic" there is a progression of societal forms. After "Democracy" ... comes "Tyranny" ... then total collapse.
Pogo had right ... the enemy is us.
Consider - you never get the time back; you can only eat the seed corn once ...
Only one thing got me: in Orwell’s world, sex instinct is gone. In our world, its been changed into a deity to worship: self pleasure. Not totalitarian. Demonic.