Ignorance is Strength

It's 1984 with a happy ending. Plus it goes way more in depth as to WHY things got the way they did and HOW to turn it around and keep it from happening again.

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We all know that it's a stacked deck against our man Ron, but what the heck, full speed ahead. The truth will set you free! Let Huckabee settle in with the others. I'm from Arkansas and I know him (and the Clintons). Huckabee is only looking for a VP spot or a Cabinet postion anyway. He's a pretty good guy, but still clothed in a cloak of NeoConism. My instinct tells me that the more they try to gang up on Ron, the more grassroot support he'll pick up. Who can argue with following the Constitution?......only someone who has something other than RED BLOOD in their veins. Hammer away Ron, make them stick to the issues. It's despicable how they toss you irrelevent questions. They know what they're doing. Now they are trying to draw you out of your circle and engage you as a lone ranger. Don't let them, make them come to you, as they are having to do. But don't let them get you off balance. It's an obvious tactic they are using.

Ron needs to stick to his messege, and let the chips fall where they will. I encourage all supporters to brush up on the Constitution. Engage your friends, and ponder the dumb stares you get. But eventully people come around. You'll notice a little slight of hand that was pulled off by the elitists years ago. The original selction of US Senators was to be from each State's respective legislature, making them fully accountable to their Home State and no one else. BUT, just before the establishment of the Federal Banking Act, little ole Amendment 17 slid through like a snake in the grass, changing the way US Senators were to be selected. Now they are elected in a popular vote, where we all know - Money and influence buys Votes. Why in the world would this need changing? Because, next, they promptly gave birth to the Federal Reserve. Wouldn't have happened without gaining control of the Senate. I think this was another one of those "midnight, on a holiday votes" too.

It is interesting the way Gov. Huckabee spun what Ron Paul was saying. Gov. Huckabee's definition of honor seems to be having a Disneyland built in Iraq with perfect peace. Our troops took out Saddam, took out his sons, allowed the Iraqi people to elect a government...if Huckabee doesn't think that's honorable...I don't know what he is expecting next.

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I think when Mike is saying Honor, he actually means Pride.

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Man this is good. Giving Dr. Paul a black eye was good too (for the film that is).

One thing I noticed, and which made me very happy - was that, when Dr. Paul said to Mike Huckabee, "... We've lost 5,000 lives. How many more lives are we willing to lose..." Huckabee moved, like he got hit with something; it was telling: this was a point he had not considered: that somehow honor (a nice concept) was less important than the lives of our soldiers.

If you are reading this before seeing the film, watch for that moment with Huckabee. I had missed it in the other debate clips, but here, I saw it plain as day.

Comrades arise !

Whoever did this, did it perfectly and in very little time.

BRAVO!!!

I would argue that Brave New World is at least equally important. Here’s the forward from Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death where he contrasts the two:

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.