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What is amazing to me is the fact that folks actually think that the people on the “gubmit” are somehow smarter than we are.
Given that the vast majority of our congresscritters are failed lawyers who couldn’t successfully convict a videotaped murderer, from whence does this belief come?
As did Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead)........et al......
George Orwell saw the future of our Government
Aldous Huxley saw the future of our society.
I re-started 1984 this morning.
It’s prescient.
Orwell didn’t “have it right”.
His book was a story with a warning. Most people who read it, figured that out.
The problem was SOME people, libtards specifically, read it, and regarded it not as a warning, but AS A BLUEPRINT they decided to enact.
Orwell only appears to have it right because some people read the book and thought “Let’s Do That!” and went about doing that. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, these people didn’t think of it on their own.
I’ve recently reconnected with a bunch of high school class mates. 1984 was required reading. I must have been the only one who didn’t think it was a guidebook! I’ve never seen such a bunch of ill informed lefties.
So did Anthony Burgess when he wrote A Clockwork Orange.
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Orwell’s most important insight in 1984 was not how the state uses surveillance, propaganda, ritual, intimidation, etc. to obtain total control.
Rather, it was his recognition of how the state hijacks language itself and, by extension, the process of thought itself, in such a manner that it becomes impossible for its subjects to form a politically incorrect thought.
America’s government-run schools have made great contributions in preparing young adults for such a totalitarian state.
Orwell knew instinctively the genesis of tyranny. The difference between the French Revolution (which resulted in tyranny) and the American one was that one (the French) was all about the “we” as opposed to the American one, with its emphasis on the “I”. The American Revolution fought for individual rights for every person, whereas the French one fought for the rights of groups. When you have Groupthink, as we have today, it can lead to nothing but tyranny, as the individual is crushed by the tribes (groups), especially with the willing alliance of the press. Most of the progress in history has resulted in an “I” doing the unimaginable, taking risks, and inventing new ways of thinking and doing. The “we” is limited by the herd mentality. Sadly, Marshall McLuhan prophesized that electronic media would increased tribalism. He was right.