Hard to believe this is happening in our lifetimes.
1984 is literally only a decade away...watch the movie minority report and decide for yourself if the stuff in that move will NOT happen in our lifetime...I’m betting the farm that it will...
Thoughts, feelings, hate crimes, political correctness. Freedom bleeds away every day, yet no one (apart from this forum) seems to care.
“Al Qanada”..
Seriously, BL? Hard to believe this is happening in our lifetime? This kind of stuff has always been going on, in most of the world, for most people. Used to be primarily religious in nature, burning heretics, Star Chamber inquisitions, witch trials, pogroms, and the like, but French liberty, equality and fraternity, enlightened skepticism, and Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao all got the bit in their teeth & bolted. Our House Un-American Activities Committee got its start under Roosevelt, before the war, and once war came, even the most open-minded among us clearly saw that all those Americans of Japanese descent just had to be camped up because we just couldn’t trust ‘em, hayna? This kind of stuff has always been going on; I’ve just mentioned a few examples that popped into my head. The beat goes on.
I know what you mean.
I know I was horribly appalled and felt a sense of surreal disbelief the first time I read the words “hate crime” as in a reference to something that could actually be proven and punished.
The grim parallel to Gorge Orwell’s “thought crime” seemed so blatantly obvious that I really couldn’t believe that anyone would take it seriously.
Obviously I was wrong. Very very wrong.
It seems like George was off by a few years, but terrifyingly accurate about what’s in store for the world — and that staffer who put together the Hillary “1984” spoof may have been a prophet as well.