![]() N'oublions pas que la violence n'est jamais seule, qu'elle ne peut vivre seule. (Malcom Muggeridge - Things Past - 1978 - p. I imagine myself waking up one morning and finding that England has become overnight a monolithic, totalitarian state, without anyone noticing without revolution of the Left or of the Right, or any large constitutional controversy or last stand by defenders of individual liberty. There is a nightmare which often assails me. (Jordan Peterson - Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - 1999, p. This means that the liar is a tyrant, because he cannot stand being a fool. The liar can only pretend to embody what is best of the past, because he cannot support or tolerate the presence of necessary deviance in the present. Lewis - The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe - 1950) Always winter and never Christmas think of that!" "Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. (Ayn, Rand - The Virtue of Selfishness - Signet 1964) Instead of being a protector of man's rights, the government is becoming their most dangerous violator instead of guarding freedom, the government is establishing slavery instead of protecting men from the initiators of physical force, the government is initiating physical force and coercion in any manner and issue it pleases instead of serving as the instrument of objectivity in human relationships, the government is creating a deadly, subterranean reign of uncertainty and fear, by means of nonobjective laws whose interpretation is left to the arbitrary decisions of random bureaucrats instead of protecting men from injury by whim, the government is arrogating to itself the power of unlimited whim – so that we are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Now consider the extent of the moral and political inversion in today's prevalent view of government. (Kansas - Sparks of the Tempest, Track 8 on Point of Know Return - 1977) Though they may promise, they only bring pain. Spreading like wildfire, fallin' like rain The less that you know the more you fall into placeĪ cog in the wheel, there is no soul in your faceīearing the standard of confusion and fear ![]() You don't know the difference as you put on the yoke Your future is managed, and your freedom's a joke But in any case an elaborate mental training, undergone in childhood and grouping itself round the Newspeak words crimestop, blackwhite, and doublethink, makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatever. If he is a person naturally orthodox (in Newspeak, a goodthinker), he will in all circumstances know, without taking thought, what is the true belief or the desirable emotion. Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in Ingsoc. A Party member is required to have not only the right opinions, but the right instincts. ![]() Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future. Et soudain je parle, sur une nation, sur un royaume, de bâtir et de planter Mais si cette nation fait ce qui est mal à mes yeux, et n'écoute pas ma voix, je me repens du bien que j'avais eu l'intention de lui faire. Soudain je parle, sur une nation, sur un royaume, d'arracher, d'abattre et de détruire mais si cette nation, sur laquelle j'ai parlé, revient de sa méchanceté, je me repens du mal que j'avais pensé lui faire. The West, Heading for a Social Credit Regime, Just Like Communist China? L'Occident, sous un régime de crédits sociaux comme la Chine communiste? Emergence of a Postmodern Violent High Tech Neototalitarianism Éclosion d'un néototalitarisme postmoderne high tech et violent? Éclosion d'un totalitarisme postmoderne high tech? / Emergence of a high tech postmodern totalitarianism
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