Posted on 09/05/2023 4:20:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If novelist George Orwell were alive today I wonder what he would tell us
That’s what George Orwell would say if he could visit our world, 75 years after he wrote his final novel, "1984."
Orwell sought to demonstrate the dangers not just of totalitarianism but of a world where words lose their meaning. Many of the terms he coined for the novel have since entered common discourse -- "thought police," "Big Brother," "doublethink," and the "memory hole," to name a few. And of course the adjective "Orwellian" comes to us because of this book. All of them point to the loss of our most precious freedom -- freedom of thought. And unfortunately, that’s where we as a society appear to be headed today.
The setting for "1984" is a dysfunctional, decaying London torn apart after the "atomic wars" of the 1950s and 1960s reshaped the planet into just three primary nation-states. Oceania (London and the West) remains in a permanent state of war, sometimes with Eastasia, sometimes with Eurasia. It doesn’t really matter, as long as there’s an external enemy to hate.
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We read this when I was in school, I wonder if students still get it assigned to them?
Currently rereading the “Left Behind” series. Yup! Scarier this time with a lot more relevancy. 😳
How did the orwellien deepstate become so powerful?
The answer is U.S.I.S.
Under Clinton the duties of federal applicant background checks was outsourced to a shell corporation known as United States Investigative Services. Prior to that the federal government processed the background checks of applicants under the oversight of OBM, office and budget management.
Eventually a whistleblower came forward to expose a scheme within usis to not only commit fraudulent fabricated background checks, but in the commission of doing so also defrauded taxpayers to the tune of nearly 7 billion dollars.
This led to nearly 700,000 improperly vetted federal applicants receiving security clearance checks to the nation’s most secure intelligence oversight positions.
The whistle blowers name is Blake Percival. However a web search will produce very little information regarding this because any mention on the internet has been nearly scrubbed.
So if there is any question regarding how the enemy secured such vital positions within our government, one look no further than U.S.I.S. which was successfully used to infiltrate and take over every branch, every level, and every agency of the U.S. government.
Here is a brief oversight:
Nope. And I’m at the tail end of Gen-X.
Someone transported from 1950 to 2023, once they got past the incredible technological advances, would think America has entered into a dystopian nightmare.
I just got finished reading “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
- George Santayana
I just watched the two 1984 movies last week while waiting to see where hurricane Idalia would go.
The 1956 version is available on Dailymotion.
The 1984 version is available on Youtube.
Looks like we’re both into WWII at the moment. I just finished reading The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940.
I’m not surprised. America is too close to the world of 1984 (and Brave New World) so kids probably wouldn’t understand why it’s suppose to be a dystopia.
Read it, at the beginning of the Reagan era, the leftist professor was rabid that Orwell was predicting Reagan, I knew better.
I do have plans on reading it, but I just started Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations.”
I know.
Both “1984” and “Animal Farm” are two of the scariest novels I’ve ever read.
“”””The whistle blowers name is Blake Percival. However a web search will produce very little information regarding this because any mention on the internet has been nearly scrubbed.”””
Your comment reminded me of Winston Smith’s job at the Ministry of Information to rewrite newspaper articles that became contrary to what actually happened.
Just think how easy it is today to rewrite history when history is no longer recorded on paper but on a bunch of zeroes and ones in a computer file.
We’re definitely living-out both of them. Whenever I think of Hillary Clinton, I think “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Which could also apply to Joe Biden.
At the very least you can see how even a Leftist back then saw the world of 1984 as bad , even if they think it would be conservatives that caused it. Both sides could agree that 1984 was a dystopia. Now our Politicians think it’s a guide book.
timely post.
just read it more carefully as a self assignment two weeks ago. got far more out of it this time around of course.
among many things, the novel is a perfect assessment of anti-God/socialist/communist/leftist/bureaucratic, totalitarian mind.
sadly for us, this is exactly the gov’t we ‘proles’ have put in place in America. it is amazing that 70 some years ago he already had the endgame of our deep-state pegged: it is Oceana. Ministry of Love, indeed.
So did we. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, as well.
I read it in high school either by assignment or on my own.
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