“Look over there! Now over there! Look anywhere but inward where you might actually see the real problems.”
CHINA CHINA (bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum)
CHINA CHINA (bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum)
shining, justice–
Whatever keeps the herd together.
Orwell:
In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
On Orwell: https://redsails.org/on-orwell/
This is how it feels to live in the imperial core and periphery 💀
Seriously, especially this part:
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
This is 1:1 how they act about China, Russia, etc., whoever is among the current “enemies” of the day. Meanwhile, the “enemies” of the western empire are often like: “we’re willing to co-exist and strive for peace, you warmongering fucks, can you stop ceaselessly bombing and bullying everything and everyone, wtf.”
If only 1984 hadn’t been banned by the USSR.
He was racist scum and a fascist/imperialist sympathiser. In many ways he is one of the progenitors of the acceptable limits of anti-establishmentism in the so-called modern left of the West.
If only orwell wasn’t a british imperial stenographer
Considering he was a anti-communist snitch. Makes sense.
