An Orwellian America...

[paulitician]

An Orwellian America | Via Gordon T Long


As a young man, I voraciously read George Orwell’s “1984”, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Alvin Toffler's trilogy which included "Future Shock"', "The Third Wave" and "Power Shift". During the era of the Vietnam War, I wondered seriously about the future and how it was destined to unfold.

Now being considerably older, I have the vantage point to reflect back on my early ruminations and expectations. Unfortunately, I am too old to alter the lessons that are now so painfully obvious. Instead, I pass the gauntlet to those who can understand and take action on what I have unavoidably come to expect for America.

The 'Huxley-Orwell' Transition:

Chris Hedges of TruthDig.com wrote 2011: A Brave New Dystopia, from which the following evolved.

The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or would we be, as Huxley envisioned, entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? It turns out Orwell and Huxley were both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement. Orwell saw the second...

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[Joe Steel]

The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right.

When the dystopia arrives it will be a neofeudalism of corporations as lords and their workers as serfs. Those not fortunate enough to be employed will be outlaws left to live on whatever they can find on the fringes of society. It will be the result not of too much government or an overbearing government but of a government manipulated to serve the rich by their stooges in government.

 

[B. Kidd]

The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right.

When the dystopia arrives it will be a neofeudalism of corporations as lords and their workers as serfs. Those not fortunate enough to be employed will be outlaws left to live on whatever they can find on the fringes of society. It will be the result not of too much government or an overbearing government but of a government manipulated to serve the rich by their stooges in government.

The dystopia has already arrived and it is called the 'new normal'. When it potentiates, bondage is the end result in the cycle of civilizations.

 

[Oldguy]

Duplicate thread:

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[paulitician]

Duplicate thread:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/283932-an-orwellian-america.html

My apologies, but still worth checking out.

 

[PoliticalChic]

An Orwellian America | Via Gordon T Long


As a young man, I voraciously read George Orwell’s “1984”, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Alvin Toffler's trilogy which included "Future Shock"', "The Third Wave" and "Power Shift". During the era of the Vietnam War, I wondered seriously about the future and how it was destined to unfold.

Now being considerably older, I have the vantage point to reflect back on my early ruminations and expectations. Unfortunately, I am too old to alter the lessons that are now so painfully obvious. Instead, I pass the gauntlet to those who can understand and take action on what I have unavoidably come to expect for America.

The 'Huxley-Orwell' Transition:

Chris Hedges of TruthDig.com wrote 2011: A Brave New Dystopia, from which the following evolved.

The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or would we be, as Huxley envisioned, entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? It turns out Orwell and Huxley were both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement. Orwell saw the second...

More:
An Orwellian America | Zero Hedge
An Orwellian America | Peace . Gold . Liberty

One should pay particular attention to the observation of George Orwell:

“My novel Nineteen Eighty Four is not intended as an attack on socialism, or on the Labour Party (of which I am a supporter), but as a show up of the perversions to which a centralised economy is liable, and which have already been partly realised in Communism and Fascism . . . . I believe also that totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere, and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences” (Letter to F. A. Henson, l6 June 1949. CEJL, Vol 4, p. 564.)