President Obama's (and Orwell's) United States of America (June 2009
War is Peace (*)
Freedom is Slavery (*)
Ignorance is Strength (*)
Terrorists are our best Friends
Freed terrorists deserve welfare, healthcare, college, taxpayer funded IVF, pensions, small business help, extra ....
The collapse of the WTC towers and the Pentagon on 911 was a wholesome "Natural" Act
Any undocumented Kenyan or whoever is obviously a "Natural" Citizen
The Oval Office's firing any Business CEO is not Control
Refusing FOIA Requests is Openness
Censorship is now Transparency
Censoring Opposing Views is Fairness
Criminal Illegal Aliens Before American Veterans for Health Care
Criminal Illegal Aliens Before American Children for College
Obama-Controlled Neoslavery is Freedom
Medical Records Held by the State is Privacy
Rationing Healthcare Creates Jobs
Better Healthcare for US Officials is Wonderful
Four Score Missing Nuclear Weapons Computers is Security
A Two-tiered Tax System favoring Politicians is Fair
Eliminating US Military Capacity is Increasing Strength
Freed, Armed Terrorists Make for Improved American Safety
Bow before Zod and ACORN
[ * from 1984, Orwell; rest instituted by President Obama ]
“Orwell himself was a committed socialist, and he insisted that “Nineteen Eighty-Four’’ should not be taken as an attack on socialism or the left wing. And, in truth, though the ruling ideology in the book is named Ingsoc (“English Socialism’’ in Oceania’s language of Newspeak), the Party’s aims have nothing to do with collectivizing wealth or any other socialist prescription.”
INTERESTING that the articles author should try to point this out. Socialism by itself and in a perfect world would be great. Many are quick to point out that the Early Church is a model of socialism. Karl Marx himself once a christian merely removed the concept of god from the early christian church model and replaced it with the state.
But the world is never perfect and mankind is never completely altruistic. A ‘committed socialist’ has not yet learned this lesson. They still hope for the day when mankind will abandon the human condition, adopt a universal altruistic nature, and proceed to build a beautiful utopian dream.
But if Orwell is such a genius to have written this landmark literary piece, then how could he have ignored the obvious parallel between the totalitarianism of thought required to implement his ‘committed socialist’ paradise, and the totalitarianism of thought that’s embodied in his literary work.
Perhaps the author is trying to make the point that Orwells ‘committed socialist’ totalitarianism is the altruistic kind, and not the kind that only exists to pursue the increase of it’s own power. ““The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake,’’ Winston is told by O’Brien, the Party official who interrogates him. “
So why is it that Orwell being such a ‘committed socialist’ then doesnt have the required grey matter to account for the human condition?
Jeremiah 17:1 “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
one of the most famous first lines in modern English literature; “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ Hardly. I've read 1984 twice and I didn't remember this. Seeing it now, I cannot recall having heard/seen it quoted in other contexts. Jacoby needs to read some more.
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."
"Who is John Galt?"
ML/NJ
Books like this are marvelous extra-Biblical prophecy. Another is “Philip Drew” by Edward Mandell House. In it, he plays out the plan for world government, now being executed by the Illuminati, CFR, NWO, New Age, central banks and International Communism.
“Brave New World” is another. (Aldous Huxley)