The Importance of History

 

Orwellian Culture

Our society has come to adopt many of the draconian measures Orwell tried to warn us about. Cameras monitor citizens from nearly every street corner in the United Kingdom, and there are a steadily growing number of them mounted traffic lights in America. The fact that Orwell’s 1984 remains a part of the required reading in many high schools across the country is laughably ironic. What is truly sad is how many readers acknowledge the brilliant foresight of Orwell yet fail to grasp how closely present-day America (and England) resemble Winston Smith’s Oceania.

Donald Jeffries, Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-up in American Politics, pg.337

George Orwell Saw the USA As It Is Now

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process continues day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

George Orwell, "1984" (written in 1949)

Children of the Party

Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… 

 

All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.

George Orwell, 1984

The "Party" Demands Denial of Evidence

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. 

George Orwell, 1984

Liberty

 

The LEFT Is Destroying Our History

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

—George Orwell

Totalitarianism Is Here

How To Destroy People

 

We Are Now Living in 1984!

 

When Truth is Hated

What the Demokrat Party Seeks

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we  are interested solely in power. … We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object to of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

George Orwell, 1984

He Who Controls the Narrative…

In the end the Party [today’s Leftists] would announce that two and two made five [or a male could be a female or a female could be a male], and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of the experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. … The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), 1984

In 1984 the Thought Police could kill you for thinking truth and common sense; in today’s world you just lose your job or get kicked out of school, or ever beat up. But, as 1984’s protagonist Winston Smith says, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” Or that a man cannot change into a woman nor a woman into a man.

The Reason the LEFT Rewrites History

If the Party [today’s Leftists and Demokrats] could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, It never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. … And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same lie—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), 1984

Political Language

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, Why I Write, cover quote.

What “Democratic” Socialism Looks Like

Socialism is usually defined as "common ownership of the means of production." Crudely: the State, representing the whole nation, owns everything, and everyone is a State employee. This does not mean that people are stripped of private possessions such as clothes and furniture, but it does mean that all productive goods, such as land, mines, ships and machinery, are the property of the State. The State is the sole large-scale producer. It is not certain that Socialism is in all ways superior to capitalism, but it is certain that, unlike capitalism, it can solve the problems of production and consumption. At normal times a capitalist economy can never consume all that it produces, so that there is always a wasted surplus (wheat burned in furnaces, herrings dumped back into the sea, etc, etc.) and always unemployment. ... 

In a Socialist economy these problems do not exist. The State simply calculates what goods will be needed and does its best to produce them. Production is only limited by the amount of labour and raw materials. Money, for internal purposes, ceases to be a mysterious all-powerful thing and becomes a sort of coupon or ration-ticket, issued in sufficient quantities to buy up such consumption goods as may be available at the moment.

George Orwell, Why I Write, pg.47-48

I don’t normally have a commentary with citations on this blog, but I posted THIS citation for the sole purpose of commenting about socialism.

Orwell stated he believed in “democratic” socialism, but all that means is that there isn’t an authoritarian running the show, just a government.  In reference to rich people, he said that butlers and “private incomes” are “monstrosities.” His outlook on income was that the government would decide what minimum income would be, and then the richest would not be allowed an income greater than ten times the minimum. With Orwell’s plan he would eliminate the “mere owners who live not by virtue or anything they produce but by the possession of title-deeds and share certificates.”  Of course the fact that said owners worked their way up to owning such production facilities, and often even invented them and built them, doesn’t seem to faze this man who tells us exactly what “democratic socialism” would do to everyone.  He says with State ownership, “nobody shall live without working.” So to his mind, managing production facilities wouldn’t be working. He rightly says resistance to his ideology “will come from the big capitalists, the bankers, the landlords and the idle rich.”  As with all socialists, you can certainly see his envy of those above his status — although I wonder just how much income he derived from the sale of his books; you know, his capitalist engagement.  Farmers will no longer own their land but if they are “competent” they “will continue as a salaried manager.” And if your occupation is as a “money lender,” then your life is “worthless.”

Additionally, he looks to raising the age at which one can leave government schools — obviously to keep them under government indoctrination for as long as possible. And as far Orwell is concerned, “Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.  It is actually the opposite of Conservatism…”. So how does he explain that the vast majority of conservatives in the USA are also very patriotic?

Well, what I see is that socialism, “democratic” or not, is a rank violation of personal right of every sort.  And yet the ignorant people on the LEFT in the USA are demanding that the USA become a socialist nation. 

Today's Culture

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

George Orwell

We Are Living in "1984"

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.

George Orwell, 1984

This perfectly sums up the ideology of the LEFT today.

Freedom of Speech

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

How to Destroy People

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell