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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 9 months ago
    It was like being slapped. I was on a bus a few months ago. And a guy across from me was reading 1984. Back when 1984 really rolled around, the Apple Macintosh Superbowl ad spoke for a new era of freedom - and it seemed to have arrived through the 80s, and 90s, into the new millennium. But obviously, with Wikileaks and Snowden and all we are forced to face an unhappy truth.

    While the surveillance is scary, the destruction of language via Newspeak goes unnoticed. How many characters to a tweet? OTOH, LMAO...
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  • Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    People have asked me at times if Obama is an idiot or if he just doesn't see what is happening. I usually say things are going according to plan.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's not very amazing to me that what Orwell and AS is coming true. It was the logical conclusion to the liberal (il)logic that the villains in their novels held in high regard. It has been clear for 100 years that where we are now is pretty close to their ultimate goal. At the rate we are going, I estimate another 25 years or so. That is a horribly long time to wait. It's time to start laying the groundwork for Atlantis.
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    Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 9 months ago
    The only thing Orwell was wrong about was the year.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 9 months ago
    I have to thank you rich...

    Waaaaaaay off-topic, but in writing my my previous comment, I was inspired with a scene I plan to add to "Roarke's Drift" (yes, khalling, I haven't given up on it... SSQQ*, that's me).

    It's tornado season again, and Roarke and his crew are battling to secure the Drift with several of them on the way. Roarke is agonizing whether it would be safer (for the Drift) to batten her down or to try outrunning the storm.

    His future love-interest (still an eco-fascist at this point, and antagonist) sees the frenzied preparation, and his final decision. She looks in his face and sees a look of absolute, desperate terror. Fear that all he's worked for, all that he's built, is going to be destroyed in an eyeblink.

    She asks herself why it bothered her so much; this was her enemy, who would poison the Earth for profit. She'd seen men afraid before; delighted in making them afraid, so why does it bother her this time?

    Then she thinks of the adversity she'd seen him weather calmly, confidently, already. She looked up at the hated thing he'd created from his imagination and creativity. This indomitable enemy, now humbled and mortal because of nature's fury. She should feel the joy of triumph, and yet... "It's not fair!" the little girl still in her cried out.

    And for the first time in her life, she hated Mother Nature.

    Roarke's Drift isn't intended as a polemic like "1984" or "Fallen Angels", however. It's just meant to be a middle-finger extended to the left.

    *(SSQQ = 2S2Q = "Too Stupid To Quit.")
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 9 months ago
    More recently, and more accurately, imo, we were warned of where we're heading, in "Fallen Angels".
    http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/06717...

    The difference is that "Fallen Angels" has an optimistic ending; Fandom built a bridge to a Gulch in the sky.

    (if you don't get it... read the darned book!)
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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 9 months ago
    Stake out liberty and limited government intellectual territory now, because when the current sh*t show collapses, we will clear away the rubble and we'd better be credible and know what we're going to rebuild on the ruins.
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  • Posted by eddieh 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I talked with three different people just today who read 1984 years ago and are alarmed at our current situation. I do think there's hope but it gonna get messy
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