I think it’ll get worse before it gets better, but we went through the 50s without ending up taking our soma and we’ll probably make it through this time again, hopefully.
No, I disagree. Not about GWB, but about “1984”. The leaders there did actually believed their own lies completely. I’m trying to remember the name of the guy in charge of torturing Winston … Meyers? He says he has complete power, and could even fly, but he chose not to. Remember, the purpose of torturing Winston was not to get information or to get him to publicly recant his anti-government positions … it was to get him to recant that position to himself. It was important to the government that, before they killed him, Winston believed they were right and he was wrong.
I can’t agree. Remember that same guy tells Winston that he had written the book explaining about how the Party and government works. At the crucial point in that book, just where it’s about to explain the purpose of the totalitarian government, it just goes “…” and it’s never explained.
Dot-dot-dot: kind of like GWB’s cognitive process…
Wasn’t that Brave New World by Huxley? Either way, they both deal with control. Brave New Worlds way just seemed a lot more pleasurable 