Video of peaceful voters being brutalized by thugs of the EU Soviet. #CatalanReferendum
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Las Vegas
As these political mass murders become increasingly commonplace, I can’t help but think we are descending down into the revolutionary rabbit hole. I think about the experience of Russians in 1917 and Germans in 1933 and I try to envision what things will look like once we extrude out the other end of this. I can’t help but be pessimistic. The possibilities seem limited to either left wing authoritarianism or right wing authoritarianism.
I’m often reminded of the Hegelian Dialectic that postulates that the collision of false thesis against false anti-thesis is designed to yield a higher truth. But whose higher truth are we being driven toward?
Or is this just a random joust between agitated political factions?
#LasVegas
Hillary Clinton’s Take on ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’
Hillary Clinton commented on Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in her book What Happened:
“Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism. This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner see five fingers as ordered. The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves.”
I don’t think it is even possible to formulate an interpretation that is more OPPOSITE of that which was intended by the author.
The “goal” of INGSOC (Big Brother) in Nineteen Eighty-Four was NOT to “sow mistrust in our leaders, the press, experts…” It was the EXACT OPPOSITE! It was to sow mistrust in ones own capacity to question them. In other words, it was INGSOC’s intent to ELIMINATE all mistrust in authority. It accomplished this by means of ubiquitous surveillance and psychological terror.
Mrs. Clinton has turned this completely inside out.
Fascinating.
“Leave the Bloody Hair On, Kids!”
Says Eddie Kramer, rock studio engineer extraordinaire:
“The message is leave the damn mistakes in,” Kramer concludes. “We’re in the ProTools world where you take every sneeze and every breath away from all the good stuff. Leave the bloody hair on.”
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Carlin on Stupid People
Orwell On Intellectuals
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” –George Orwell
Stone on Foreverwar and the System
“If you believe in what you’re saying and you can stay the course, you can make a difference.” -Oliver Stone
Four Types of Dystopia
By Darren Allen
Source: ExpressiveEgg.org
The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were:
Orwellian. Rule by autocratic totalitarian people, party or elite group, limitation of choice, repression of speech and repression of minorities, belief in order, routine and rational-morality. Control by enclosure, fear and explicit violence. Violent repression of dissent (via ‘the party line’). Erotic physicality and sexual freedom suppressed via control of sexual impulses. Control of thought by explicitly policing language (Orwellian Newspeak).
Huxleyan Rule by democratic totalitarian systems, excess of choice, limitation of access to speech platforms, assimilation of minorities, belief in emotional-morality, ‘imagination’ and flexibility, and control by desire, debt and implicit threat of violence. No overt control of dissent (system selects for system-friendly voices). Erotic physicality and sexual freedom suppressed via promotion of pornographic sensuality and dissolution. Control of thought by implicitly enclosing language within professional boundaries (Illichian Newspeak, or Uniquack).
Kafkaesque…
“There Is No Upside”
