There are far too many parallels between this situation and 1984 for comfort. More or less I was referring to the left's obsession with media primarily geared toward children or their shit taste in novels which basically extends only to trashy romance and young adult fiction. I'd bet most of them haven't read 1984, and if they did, they seem to have taken a far different message from it than the rest of us.
I've not read the book but I have seen the very good 1984 movie with John Hurt.
I watched it as a teen, in the year 2005, it scared the living shit out me, it's one of the rare pieces of media that feels like it's giving you a dose of unvarnished truth, I didn't understand it at the time because being a teenager in the 2000s I was of course applying it to Dubya and the Republicans, but I think back to that scene where Winston Smith flashes back to the time he tried to sleep with a dirty, downtrodden prostitute and the sick feeling it gave me in my stomach due to the utter bleakness of that world.
And again, even though I didn't really understand it, I still got the feeling that I was being given an unvarnished dose of truth.
It's somewhere in between that, 1984, Brazil, and Brave New World.
I have read Brave New World, that one's interesting because it's the "nice" version of 1984, where people are controlled through pleasure and not fear and pain, but it's also upsetting how utterly mindless everyone is and how soulless everything is, it's a world of pleasure but no true passion or joy.
Brave New World is clearly what they're hoping for, but I fear that we would instead wind up with 1984, neither scenario are good although Brave New World is the lesser of two evils, as a world of mindless pleasure but no true passion or joy is still better than a world of endless misery and pain.
But still, neither world is one I want to live in.
Well if violence is the only thing that works we all know where this is going
This is not a good thing, the Nazis were not good guys, fascism is not a good thing.
But it's clear now that fascism is just a side effect of communism, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, when communism springs up you sometimes get fascism as a defense mechanism but the end result is everyone winds up in a world of shit and freedom, which is what my Founding Fathers fought for, takes a holiday.
My question is just what the hell happened to the decent America of 20 years ago? How have we fallen
this hard
this fast? 20 years is a while but it isn't
that long a period of time, it boggles the mind.
I remember the America of my childhood, 20 years ago and before, it was a paradise compared to the nightmare we have today, where did it all go so wrong?