The Eloi are Feel-the-Bern Democrats!... THE MORLOCKS ARE MIDDLE-AMERICAN REPUBLICANS!
Practical Jokes debuted on NBC. And Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire. But since then, we’ve caught up with George Orwell... even surpassed him with our innovations, the liberals among us especially.
Listen to them telling us... WAR IS PEACEKEEPING.
The “Ministry of Peace” is what our Defense Department has been reduced to, if even. The “Ministry of Plenty” is, with our entitlement programs, almost our entire government. The “Ministry of Love” is our whole political class. Just ask them if they love you when they’re running for office. And the “Ministry of Truth,” like the Thought Police, is no longer needed. Its functions have been outsourced to the aforementioned American universities and the New York Times . But there’s one thing in 1984 that will never become a wide-spread innovation in American life... I hope. That’s the ending, when Winston Smith has given up. He’s drunk, defeated, and staring at a “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” poster with tears of love for the political leadership streaming down his face. We don’t have to be geniuses to know we don’t want to see that in the future. Photos sourced from Wikimedia Commons .
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY REPARATIONS. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. 1984 has three international “superstates” in perpetual conflict and shifting alliances. We’ve got four, counting jihadists. “Two Minutes Hate”? Watch Keeping Up With the Kardashians . Episodes last forty -two minutes. And the “telescreen” that watches us while we watch it is where you’re reading this right now. Our students, teachers, intellectuals, public figures, and even ordinary citizens posting anonymous social-media shaming don’t need the “Thought Police.” Policing thoughts has become a mass DIY project. Examine any history textbook assigned in schools to see a “memory hole” at work on a scale undreamed of by 1984 ’s protagonist Winston Smith as he did his job at the Ministry of Truth turning former luminaries into “unpersons.” For example, Sally Hemings is now more revered than Thomas Jefferson. Orwell’s “Inner Party” comprised 2% of the population. This is double the inclusivity of the Occupy This-n-That’s supposed 1%.
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