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George Orwell isn't the only one to warn us.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:21 am
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:21 am
In 1972 when A Clockwork Orange came out an English prof told me: 'Zach, in 100 years this movie will be a classic in it's prediction of our future.'
About two years later Anthony Burgess (author of the book) made this assessment:
“The results of a liberal and a fascist are the same. They differ only in their dogma. Their means and ends are hardly distinguishable. The ultimate totalitarian nightmare is liberalism going mad. And there is no cure for the madness.”
I have to admit that I took it with some skepticism. Fifty years later it's pretty clear.
About two years later Anthony Burgess (author of the book) made this assessment:
“The results of a liberal and a fascist are the same. They differ only in their dogma. Their means and ends are hardly distinguishable. The ultimate totalitarian nightmare is liberalism going mad. And there is no cure for the madness.”
I have to admit that I took it with some skepticism. Fifty years later it's pretty clear.
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Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:26 am to Zach
Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, and others I'm sure.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:26 am to Zach
Even scarier is that the reprogramming takes place in mass, and they eyes don’t need to be pried open, people volunteer to watch the preprogrammed agenda on their on TVs
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:34 am to ProjectP2294
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Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, and others I'm sure.
Mike Judge.
Idiocracy was always a little too close to home, but at this point if you can't see how America could get to that point based on current attitudes and actual public policy, we may be too far gone.
Essentially EQUITY gets us there WAY faster than the 500 years in the movie.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:40 am to Zach
Don’t forget Zamyatin, who was about a decade ahead of Huxley.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:46 am to Padme
The saddest part is that America is willfully committing suicide.
Shitting on our forefathers, and generations of grandfathers that died in it's wars to establish, and later maintain the Republic.
The Frankfurt School long game was well played.
Shitting on our forefathers, and generations of grandfathers that died in it's wars to establish, and later maintain the Republic.
The Frankfurt School long game was well played.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:53 am to GeauxTigerTM
Blackstone was of the following view:
[T]he law without equity, though hard and disagreeable is much more desirable for the public good than equity without the law, which would make every judge a legislator and introduce most infinite confusion as there would be almost as many different rules of action laid down in our courts as there are differences of capacity and sentiment in the human mind.[6]
We see the consistent push to equity for a reason, it leaves behind established law built on individual liberty and responsibility and puts in its place group think.
[T]he law without equity, though hard and disagreeable is much more desirable for the public good than equity without the law, which would make every judge a legislator and introduce most infinite confusion as there would be almost as many different rules of action laid down in our courts as there are differences of capacity and sentiment in the human mind.[6]
We see the consistent push to equity for a reason, it leaves behind established law built on individual liberty and responsibility and puts in its place group think.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:55 am to ProjectP2294
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Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, and others I'm sure.
Kurt Vonnegut as well.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:55 am to Zach
C.S. Lewis
Posted on 12/29/22 at 11:58 am to Zach
Before it's all over, "Harrison Bergeron" will be the most important literary work of all times, excluding The Bible. 
Posted on 12/29/22 at 12:03 pm to Havoc
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Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, and others I'm sure. Kurt Vonnegut as well.
Hmmm, I see a sexist trend here. We should talk about all the female authors who rightly predicted our future.
But I can't think of one.
Posted on 12/29/22 at 12:08 pm to Zach
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We should talk about all the female authors who rightly predicted our future.
Margaret Atwood warned us of the dangers of muslim theocracies, even tho' she claims that's not what it's about....
Posted on 12/29/22 at 12:18 pm to TheRoarRestoredInBR
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The saddest part is that America is willfully committing suicide.
Was listening to Victor Davis Hanson last night bemoaning the loss of work ethic in America, and he said,” America got where we are by hard work and it wasn’t given to us. If we think we can maintain our status simply because we are owed it and we live in America, we are fooling ourselves.” ( paraphrased)
Posted on 12/29/22 at 12:30 pm to Zach
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Hmmm, I see a sexist trend here. We should talk about all the female authors who rightly predicted our future. But I can't think of one
Posted on 12/29/22 at 1:14 pm to Zach
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Hmmm, I see a sexist trend here. We should talk about all the female authors who rightly predicted our future. But I can't think of one.
Ayn Rand?
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