I mentioned in another post I was re-reading Orwell's 194 because it has been some time since I last read it. I could not remember the details of the book, but I recall the larger themes and I was pretty sure that the things we see to day in America look like things Orwell predicted in his story of a dystopian world where 3 totalitarian governments, socialist governments, controlled the world.
As I am reading the section where Orwell describes what the new world is like I came across this passage which I found particularly interesting:
"What kind of people would control this world had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians." Keep in mind this book was written in 1949 just after WWII.
He followed this passage with another:
"As compared to their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition."
Further, " The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking."
We are in the early stages of what Orwell predicted would be in 1984. He got the date wrong but everything else is pretty much on target with one exception. "The Party" was trying to eliminate sex for pleasure and any sexual acts, normal or perverse, for pleasure were grounds for execution. Today's liberals are consumed by sex, and in particular sexual perversion.
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