We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.
Such a large number of people in this country are so willing to cower in fear from any threat, so willing to hand off responsibility for their own safety to the government, so willing to not question the actions of our governments at all levels, that I believe The United States Of America deserves the designation I’ve given them in the title of this post.
Jeff Goldstein captures the American Zeitgeist:
Muslim extremists living among us bomb a foot race with pressure cookers, nails, ball bearings and chemical reactions — and the first reaction on the left (and the risk averse right) is to hide away the pressure cookers, then, having defended a city-wide shutdown to accommodate a militarized police presence, call for “re-interpreting” the Constitution to create a surveillance state, along with measures that would target gun ownership, gun powder, and fireworks. – Okay, maybe that’s the second reaction — the first being, how can we blame this slaughter on the TEA Party?
Could This Be One Explanation?
The Left In America has succeeded in draining the rugged out of many Americans and is hard at work now on Phase II: emptying the content out of their individualism.
For this is what the Left does; this is who they are: self-designated masterminds who seek to re-engineer Mankind. They cannot do this unless they gain full control over every person. Seeing that every Human Being has been blessed with Free Will [deep down the Leftists know this], the Left knows that it, in order for the re-engineering to be successful, each individual must without mental reservation give up control of his or her Will. So they work on achieving this goal, doing whatever it takes to turn men and women into compliant sheeples who can then be led to the spiritual slaughter.
This is the Way Of The Left.
Praise Be to Baal.
[you Catholics better explain this one to your non-Catholic friends]
O’Brien smiled slightly. “You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out. Did I not tell you just now that we are different from the persecutors of the past? We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroyed a heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instance of death we cannot permit any deviation. In the old days a heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it. Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet. But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out. The command of the old despotisms was “Thou shalt not.’ The command of the totalitarians was ‘Thou shalt.’ Our command is ‘Thou art.‘ No one whom we bring to this place ever stands out against us. Everyone is washed clean. . . .
