tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post8195520849727197238..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: MSM Finally Waking up to the Horror of Putin's RussiaLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-61093907869059261022008-02-11T13:51:00.000-05:002008-02-11T13:51:00.000-05:00This is called death by bureaucracy. In the west i...This is called death by bureaucracy. In the west it’s the reason the pragmatic, and socialist left want to put socialized medicine in place in America. <BR/><BR/>It’s a point of SOFT TOTALITARIANISM, that the responsibilities, are pushed off onto nothings that don’t really exist. This is a boon of groupism. That one cant blame a whole state for the actions of those following the orders, and if the state is of the people (a full democracy, not a republic), then the state executing people IS doing the work of the people, and conveniently has grown deaf to their orders, but NOT THE MANDATE.<BR/><BR/>Death by bureaucracy, red tape, dragging your feet, following the rules, etc. <BR/><BR/>What we see as a return to the old days, is actually a return to the NEW DAYS where control is done through fascist means, and SOFT TOTALITARIANISM or rather COMMUNITARIANISM (communist totalitarianism), is the new order of the day. <BR/><BR/>The Soviet Union was more Orwellian, the neo soviet order is more Huxley. (And he should know, his family members were part of the groups doing the work towards that!)<BR/><BR/>Which totalitarianism is winning–the hard or soft? <BR/>Margaret Atwood muses on the two visionary tales, namely, George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, each of which predicated the totalitarian regimes of the future–the hard and soft versions, respectively:<BR/><BR/><I> During the cold war, Nineteen Eighty-Four seemed to have the edge. But when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, pundits proclaimed the end of history, shopping reigned triumphant, and there was already lots of quasi-soma percolating through society. True, promiscuity had taken a hit from Aids, but on balance we seemed to be in for a trivial, giggly, drug-enhanced spend-o-rama: Brave New World was winning the race.<BR/>That picture changed, too, with the attack on New York’s twin towers in 2001. Thought crime and the boot grinding into the human face could not be got rid of so easily, after all. <B>The Ministry of Love is back with us, it appears, though it’s no longer limited to the lands behind the former iron curtain: the west has its own versions now.<BR/>On the other hand, Brave New World hasn’t gone away. Shopping malls stretch as far as the bulldozer can see. </B> On the wilder fringes of the genetic engineering community, there are true believers prattling of the gene-rich and the gene-poor - Huxley’s alphas and epsilons - and busily engaging in schemes for genetic enhancement and - to go one better than Brave New World - for immortality.<BR/><B>Would it be possible for both of these futures - the hard and the soft - to exist at the same time, in the same place? And what would that be like? </B><BR/></I><BR/><BR/>The piece itself concentrates on Huxley’s classic, and, more importantly, on what makes it a classic:<BR/><I><BR/>It was Huxley’s genius to present us to ourselves in all our ambiguity. Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential. But thanks to our uniquely structured languages, human beings can imagine such enhanced states for themselves, though they can also question their own grandiose constructions. It’s these double-sided imaginative abilities that produce masterpieces of speculation such as Brave New World</I><BR/>To quote The Tempest, source of Huxley’s title: “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on.” He might well have added: “and nightmares”.<BR/>'Everybody is happy now'<BR/>http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2212230,00.html <BR/><BR/><B>Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), which proposed a different and softer form of totalitarianism - one of conformity achieved through engineered, bottle-grown babies and hypnotic persuasion rather than through brutality, of boundless consumption that keeps the wheels of production turning and of officially enforced promiscuity that does away with sexual frustration, of a pre-ordained caste system ranging from a highly intelligent managerial class to a subgroup of dim-witted serfs programmed to love their menial work, and of soma, a drug that confers instant bliss with no side effects.</B><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Now guess which one the drug hazed baby boomers aer going for? <BR/><BR/>Guess which one the neo soviets are going for? <BR/><BR/><BR/>The new war will be a war between which type of totalitarianism, not whether we will be free or not.Artfldgrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13594241837693535704noreply@blogger.com