Posted on 01/31/2023 8:34:22 AM PST by texas booster
The Left runs Oceania, and we work for their various bureaus.
The 1960s revolution was both anarchic and nihilist. But it was waged against—not from—the establishment. Hippies and the Left either attacked institutions or, in Timothy Leary fashion, chose to “turn on, tune in, drop out” from them.
The current revolution is much different—and far more dangerous—for at least three reasons.
The Establishment Is the Revolution
The current Left has no intention of “dropping out.” Why would it?
It now controls the very institutions of America that it once mocked and attacked—corporate boardrooms, Wall Street, state and local prosecuting attorneys, most big-city governments, the media, the Pentagon, network and most of cable news, professional sports, Hollywood, music, television, K-12 education, and academia. ...
Macintosh Becomes MacBeth
The second contribution to the present anarchy is big tech, which speeds up the revolution and spreads it broadly. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was predicated not just on the Sovietization of the state, but the electronically ubiquitous and near instantaneous means by which the apparat ensures its dominance. One of the strangest things about the Left is that it no longer warns of 1984 but emulates it.
How the Left became synonymous with the Internet, social media, mobile phones, pads, and laptops is a long story. But let it be said the Left, and not conservatives, have mastered them all. It has manipulated high tech to change the way we vote, access information, communicate, consume the news, buy, and sell, and express ourselves. In sum, they run Oceania and we work for their various bureaus.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Globalization hollowed out the red-state interior and enriched the blue bicoastal elite. Wealth in mining, farming, construction, manufacturing, and assembly became dwarfed by riches of investment, high tech, social media, law, insurance, and real estate. The former were the up-by-the boot straps conservatives, the latter one day rich and the next moment through hype, investment, and venture capital, richer than anyone in the history of civilization.
The wealthiest ZIP codes and congressional districts are blue, not red. Most of the Fortune 400 billionaires are left-wing. So, there is no ’60s-style talk about the evils of corporations and the supposedly idle rich, none of the old conspiracy theories about Anaconda Copper, ITT, or the Rockefellers.
I copied the start of each section. As always, a university level discussion that is worthy of your time.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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What anarchy we live in when the richest among us are the most radical and wish to destroy for all others what they enjoy.
John Kerry lectures us on climate change from his private jet. Your leaf blower, not his Gulfstream GIV-SP, is the global threat. Al Gore screams about the evils of carbon emissions—after pocketing $100 million by selling his failed and worthless cable station to smoky and sooty Qatar, fronting for the antisemitic Al Jazeera.
The Clintons feel the pain of the poor all the way to their $100 million fortune from shakedown lectures, Wall Street, “consulting,” and “foundation” contributions. Van Jones, CNN expert, the object of Valerie Jarrett’s oohing and awing, famous for his “whitelash” exegeses, and recipient of a $100 million Bezos award, now lectures us that the five rogue black policemen in Memphis, who beat to death a black suspect, are still proof of white racism that accounts for blacks belittling the lives of blacks.
In our present anarchy, we take seriously the lectures on microaggressions from the Duchess of Montecito. The Obamas weigh in on the dangers of climate change and rising seas from their seaside, multimillion-dollar Martha’s Vineyard estate, or Hawaii beachfront mansion that apparently has an invisible climate-change barrier on its beach. Kamala Harris is our border czar who assures us it is “secure,” defined by 5 million illegal entries since she took office.
Nancy Pelosi works for the “children” and, after a life in politics, that selflessness ends up worth $100 million from her husband’s insider real estate deals and stock tips. It is almost as if socialist Bernie Sanders owned three homes, or anti-capitalist Elizabeth Warren was once a house flipper.
Ouch!
Being a Boomer, I can attest how this awful "PC, Woke, Cancel Culture" began. I spent a weekend at a commune in the late 60's. Because so many wanted to sit around and sing Kumbaya and play bongos while ignoring their assigned duties, the productive folks got fed up with carrying the hippies weight and left. Sound familar? The commune disbanded 2 weeks later.
VDH bump for later....
What you wrote....100% true. If you have the time go to youtube and see this from a few days ago.
Victor Davis Hanson and Jordan Petersen discuss matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUC2Xk2YW9M
VDH was even hotter than usual. I yelled “Amen” multiple times!
Someone called??
and from a coup we never knew.”........Victor Davis Hanson
Thank you!
I hadn’t seen this. Will find the time.
But it was waged against—not from—the establishment. …With all due respect, VDH, are you really sure about that?
Here's a 2020 theme-matching meme. Click to read it full screen.
MOBZILLA looks mean and nasty, yet he eails to exhale
fire. Where is his fire?
“ became dwarfed by riches of investment, high tech, social media, law, insurance, and real estate”
But nothing beats usury, and counting unpayable debt as an income stream.
Thanks for the ping pundit.
According to Vulture.com:
Check out the images here: Atomic breath pics
Will give you that. Do seem to remember in one film he did
‘fly’ (backward). Gammera, spun like a top using his four
‘jet engines’. Those scenes, always laughable. Monster movies
always a favorite. Westerns, not so much.
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