Our Government Defined

[Varmit]

If there was ever a quote that defined our current government it is the following.  Thank you Mr. Orwell for your warning, though much ignored it was.



"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."- George Orwell 1984

[twirldoggy]

I first read 1984 in my freshman year at KU: 1963.  At that time I couldn't imagine what 1984 would be like, much less what George Orwell was describing.  Now I know. 

[Varmit]

Just wait, you ain't seen nothing yet.  And the bad news is that it can only get worse from here.  Make no mistake, those in power will seek to retain that power...and nothing will be beneath them.  Net Neutrality, Cap and Trade, nothing more than small steps towards their goal and the erosin of our freedoms.

[Warph]

I first read Orwell's "1984" in high school in the middle fifties.... It was a hot commodity back then since it hadn't been out that long.  You probably wouldn't be able to find a copy in any high school in this nation today.  PC people probably killed it.

[twirldoggy]

This must be true.  When one uses the word Orwellian no one knows what you are talking about.