One sees this phrase more and more...
I myself have said that with the announcement of the War on terror
that Orwells perpetual war is here...
but surely we are being lulled into an assertion that before the War On Terror we had a rosy beautiful idyllic free & democratic society. If that was the case what was the cold war about? what, indeed, was McCarthyism?
What was the nuclear deterrant known as mutually assured destruction?
What was the fear based programming of Protect & Survive?
So how can we become more Orwellian in the 21st century. Are we post-Orwellian? If so, what has changed? We still have wars in defined zones called countries on the land-masses of this planet. For over 50 years we have seen opposing ideologies used to justify pre-emptive conflict. The Industrial Barons which set up monopolies in the early 20th Century, still have a hold on industrial ecomomy via a corporate Elitist colonial Feudalism. Fake freedom - a managed democracy, posing as 'Homelands' of liberty and equality. Coups involving real politik for global resources. soldiers are labelled the new Pioneers by our 'leaders', while in reality these Mercenaries recruit child soldiers. There is Poverty, disease, Slavery, and dehumanization. If we, who are treated as the ordinary, the meek, the low, are to become post-orwellian, we must see through the illusion of this private-elite 'state against state' apparatus. We must see through the illusion of the beaurocracy, the fear of punishment from not obeying the designed reality that keeps us all busy slaving to the tune of those who have ruled for centuries. It gives us no time for our children, for ourselves, and for our future. As we become more in debt, doesn't it become a distinct possibility that one day those debts might enable these fat controllers to make you work for NOTHING but the privelidge of staying alive within a systemic society labelled as 'free'? I think that particular, rather peculiar brand of freedom is called slavery.
Is the concept of 'Anti-war' - doublespeak? Consider the collective that has become known as the 'anti-war movement' In the current climate of the war on terror, it has become apparent that the situation in Iraq is not actually a WAR, but an invasion and occupation as part of a process of globalisation instigated for the benefit of Multi-national corporations. These entities are often represented by Politicians who simultaneously have a hand in their respective countries political destiny. It has become apparent that The war on Terror is a political tool for the erosion of the rights of individual liberty via a mechanism of fear-based mind control, which seeks to economically and politically benefit from terror itself. The concept of 'anti-war' has come to be steered to justify genocide in the name of spreading democracy. It has become a collective which rightly sees murder for economic strategic political ends as fundamentally wrong but with no aknowledgement given to their own use of information as a tool of righteous warfare for fighting such control and the use of violence as a resort to battle the forces of control in extreme cases of defense of autonomy. A microcosm of this polemic can be observed within the argument against gun-control which states that fascistic societies deny the individual the right to bear arms as a last defense against the tyranny of totalitarianism. Thus 'Peaceful' people are placed in the position, through manipulation, whereby they put any autonomy they seek to express in a vulnerable position It thus becomes the states responsibilty to label enemies and to train citizens to believe they are fighting a righteous cause. No doubt WWII and the fight against the Nazis was a catlyst. But citizens formed autonomous resistance groups throughout Europe to fight the scourge of Hitler. They used guerilla warfare, amazing cunning bravery and knowledge. Ask yourself where they got thier weapons from. I use the concept of weapon not only to imply guns etc, but intelligence, spirit, compassion and artistic creativity. The real fight against state as reality design & oppression could be labelled 'anti-control' or 'self autonomy' or 'conscientious dissent' In Orwell's world of perpetual war [eg: Eurasia vs Eastasia] it is suggested that public consciousness can be made to believe from day to day, moment to moment, that the war is what has always been... while on Airstrip one we observes that at any moment the state of war could be seen to mutate, magically transforming to take on different enemies, allegiances and locations. Winston Smith wakes up to the fact he is part of the machine that designs reality.
With Orwell's concept of state control via information in mind...
I believe Orwell is re-defining war as state control over the individual via a cultic mode of repression. The perpetual war is actually 'The state versus the individual' - commanded on a global scale, with all countries being part of the theatre of perpetual warfare. The mechanism of each state is made up of controlled staff and soldiers who totally believe the myth of each individual 'country' as they are trained to kill each other unquestioningly.
Big Brother is Emmanuel Goldstein
Is The flip side the SAME side...?BUSH IS OSAMA Imagine a state which was run on the basis of perpetual Freedom. The population live within gated communities, and aspire to happy productive lives via a mechanism of state controlled linguistic-media manipultion. While outside the zone of the majorities consciousness - the state marches with it's OWN crack troops, bought mercenaries and trained 'foreign armies'. This collective labels itself as representing the 'global peace state' and are actually commiting a genocide which is a politically useful tool because it creates the victims it needs. For it is these political dissidents who flee to the boundaries of a 'peace state' that are labelled as terrorists...and are subsequently promoted as a threat to those living within the zone of conciousness known as 'freedom'. WELCOME TO WWIV: 'WAR IS PEACE' |