THE
EQUIVALENCE IS STARTLING
George
Orwell’s 1984, published in 1949, portrayed a democracy taken over by an
oligarchic government headed by a charismatic con man.
War is Peace
Freedom is
Slavery
Ignorance is
Strength
“The enemy
of the moment always represents absolute evil.”
If all
others accepted the lie which the party imposed – if all records told the same
tale – then the lie passed into history and became true. Who controls the past, ran the party slogan,
controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Statistics
were just as much a fantasy in their original version. A great deal of the time, you were supposed
to make them up out of your head.
The aim of
the high is to remain where they are. The aim of the middle is to change places
with the high.
It was still
true that men were not equal in their native talents and that functions had to
be specialized in ways that favored some individuals against others.
Imprisonment
without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture
to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole
populations – not only became common again, but were tolerated and even
defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.
In the past,
no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.”
Doublethink:
(reality control)
Thou shall
not kill, but glorification of war heroes.
New Speak: (propaganda)
designed to diminish the range of thought
“The
essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while retaining the
firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing
in them, to forget any facts that have become inconvenient.
We know that
no one ever seized power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.”
Orwell warns
that a totalitarian government can successfully manipulate the minds of a large
population to the point where a person can think the opposite of what is true. Trump and his Republican Ing Soc have
accomplished this with MAGA.
We are nearly there
2+2 = 5
the Ol'Buzzard
