The Doctrine of Manifest Dystopia

[Goldstein1984]

It just occurred to me, that this doctrine might be what we're experiencing:

Concentration of wealth
Peasantification of the working class
Erosion of civil liberties
Lies repeated until they become truth
Use of government forces to stifle dissent (Tehran, Philadelphia, Tegucigalpa, Copenhagen)
Loss of representative government
"National interest" has replaced defense as the criterion for war
A population pacified with mindless entertainment and anti-depressants
Consumption = patriotism

[StarfarerBill]

1. Fascism by any other name...

[Faryn Balyncd]

2. k and r

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. I like to ponder who or which nation we'll be bombing in 2020...

we should make a game of it. I also like to ponder if we will do whatever it takes to have the baddest military forever... and what will happen if the hoola hoop makes a comeback. I must be bored... maybe.

[Goldstein1984]

6. I'm guessing that we'll still be bombing Afghanistan and

Pakistan.

By then, we'll also be bombing Uzbekistan.

Israel will still be bombing Iran with our tacit approval.

And Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua may be on the list.

War is good for business.

[MisterP]

10. Madagascar nt

[racaulk]

4. Yep, that sounds about right.

K&R

[valerief]

5. War is peace, ignorance is strength. nt

[Goldstein1984]

7. Isn't it sad how Orwell's "1984" has been transformed from a...

work of fiction to an instruction manual?

[valerief]

11. Yep, Goldstein (funny). It's to the letter, when you pay attention. nt

[ThomCat]

13. Orwell was a visionary. It is truly sad how clearly he knew

what could be coming. :(

[xiamiam]

8. thats the sorry truth Goldstein..some just refuse to see it..but they will

the unfortunate thing is that, until a person is directly affected, they just dont give a crap.

[Goldstein1984]

9. I believe we're all already directly affected

we just differ in our awareness of the fact.

[lunatica]

12. Wow! You nailed it

[ThomCat]

14. How very true.

How very sad. :(

[tom_paine]

15. Not might be, Goldstein...IS

The Dark Ages, as Kurt Vonnegut used to say, never went away.

They just got a larger energy budget. (my addition to Vonnegut's quote)

I'll tell you this, though, something went wrong with the Global Aristocracy's (Bilderbergers, Illuminati, Medeval European Power Structure, call it what you will) and their "system" during the 20th Century.

As in 1776, they had to yield a little to maintain long-term control. But the problem, thanks to advertising, psychology & public relations, is over now.

They just had to invent a new system to overlay the old, and that system is Inverted Totalitarianism (Google it).

It works perfectly, and in the event people start trouble as it bevcomes even MORE obvious, that's what the purposefully-driven-Nazi-style insane 30M Hannidiots, Dittoheads, Savage Weiners and the rest of the Right-Wing Authoritarian Followers are for.

If we resist, they will be unleashed with governmental permission and will happily load the boxcars and staff the camps.

Crazy conspiracy theory? Maybe, we cant know for sure. I would have thought so 10 years ago, but that was before the naked hand of power showed itself to anyone who cared to turn off the TV and look around.

Even if I am wrong, you are most certainly right about the "plan" which comes closer to fruition every day and Obama isn't even slowing it down.

Hell, I don't think he even truly controls the military - he needs a Bushie to be Sec of Def and you know what our "American Kremlinology" studies tell us that means. It makes even more sense in the context of the massive bloodless "forced retirement" Bushie purges from 2003-2005 and probably more we don't know about.

Gosh, I'd love to think that, too, was nuts, but watch and see if an American, not a Bushie, EVER is Sec of Def again.

Kremlinology is what is needed to analyze this country's workings, not the analysis that is applied to Free Nations.

[Goldstein1984]

16. Inverted Totalitarianism

What you write makes sense. One would have to be blind to both history and current events to doubt that potential.

I've always been repulsed by the whole "Homeland" concept.

The Right Wing militia material you mention has all the makings of an America Ton Ton Macoute.

And I wonder if that is what the obsession with minorities and immigrants is all about with the Right Wingers--they aren't likely to see things in the Right way.

Tom Paine would be seeing through all of this. There's a reason he was ejected from the American Pantheon of Founders.

Thanks for the great addition to my post.

Now how do we wake people up, and what do we do when they're awake?