Posted on 01/27/2019 10:15:54 PM PST by vannrox
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Hillary took them to be instruction manuals.
The 4chan kids are very familiar with INGSOC. It is a serious component of many memes. There is some hope for the future. Of course, I have been reading 1984 for the first time in 50 years (since 10th grade). The first time I read it was 1968 and my feeling was “we have this book so we have been ‘vaccinated’ and it won’t happen.” When 1984 came we felt vindicated. Reassured. Now reading it I get the message of futility. Serious black pilled. It doesn’t matter if you hate Goldstein or love him. It doesn’t matter if you resist. In fact, resistance is part of “the business model”. Even the resistance is crafted by “the system” and part of it. “The Brotherhood” can never succeed because it was never intended to succeed but rather just to provide a futile past time for folks who aren’t kool aid drinkers.
‘’1984’’ is neither prophecy or science fiction. “1984’’ is a warning. And one that seems, for the most part unfortunately, to have gone unheeded.
Somebody I heard recently said that conspiracy theories are “reassuring in that even if they are greedy, corrupt, and nefarious some people find it reassuring to believe there is ‘someone in control’”. At first this struck me as odd but as I ponder it it seems more true. But look around. There are subtle clues that some one does have their hand on the wheel and it ain’t anyone with a name we know. Think about it. What is there to prevent Bezos from owning absolutely every goddam dollar in the world? Manners? Seriously? So like, Monopoly, what happens then? No one knows so it cannot be allowed to happen. Besides what is money worth when ONE guy owns all of it? See what I mean?
Or try this. Look at gummint. Why does Hillary and Zero get away with everything and Trump can’t sneeze? Well, if the truth were known by NPCs no one would vote Democrat. We can’t allow that world to happen. Where no one votes Democrat. It doesn’t make any more sense than Bezos owning all the money, see?
Take what you know of our courts and judicial system. They are just a dog and pony show. Only trivial matters are decided in court and everyone knows it. Only trivial matters are even issues in elections (flag burning, fag marriage, “a Wall” AFTER 30 million illegal cows have entered the barn, you name it).
Big brother does exist but our Big Brother is shy.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Interesting comments...
With regards to the courts/judicial system ... you should spend a few hours at your local criminal court to observe how things work at the lowest level. Dog and pony show it isn’t.
Some people find it reassuring to believe there is “someone in control.” I guess, because they don’t have to do anything but go back to living their existence as long as they get their share of whatever to be happy, until someone with control (government) decides otherwise. Reassurance then goes out the door, but it is too late.
Bezos owning all the money? Impossible it would require that he owns the means to print it and everyone would be required under force of law to accept it. So Bezos can work his way to $10 trillion (by not counterfeiting) and the Fed could just print more. It’s not that it cannot be allowed to happen, but that it cannot happen.
We can’t allow the world to happen where no one would vote demokrap? California ... the GOP is being erased before your eyes by the demokraps. “They” under the current system don’t have to make it so that no one votes for GOP, just that it doesn’t matter when they do since there will be so few who can win, and those that do win will be insignificant tokens, museum pieces, or a nuisance who will be crushed if needed. However, “they” would not be opposed to the old Soviet, one party system as long as it was their party. It has happened before in history, you mean it cannot happen here, until it does.
Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” can also be thrown into the mix as a book that was written as a warning becoming a “how to” book by the Leftists.
1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm were all Required Reading in both high school and college once upon a time.
3,936,256=1984 squared. What we’re experiencing is way more sophisticated and evil than the book. Because so far the end hasn’t happened.
He left out Newspeak, the most destructive of the lefts assault on humanity.
Only thanks to about 640,000 voters in three midwestern states. The other side just didn't get enough propaganda out there in time. I'm sure they won't make that mistake again.
That was going to be my comment, but you beat me to it...
1984, in particular, was a great book. But it became a textbook for some, rather than the cautionary tale it was meant to be.
MSM early pictures of Trump- - showing him to be 'orange'...
Orwell was an English leftist who joined the communists against the Spanish. Like many on the “republican” side he went to Spain to advance the communist revolution. I read that he never stopped being a leftist even though he saw and reported what they were like in Spain.
What's sad is the anti-Spanish propaganda is so strong, the communist talking points about Franco are still parroted by many.
I read it around then. 10 % sounds low.
Just like Crime and Punishment was required reading. Public school education.
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