An amazingly insightful article from Bruce Walker at The American Thnker has caught my attention this morning. It’s so good I wish I could post the whole thing here. As it is, I’ll give you enough to make you go read the thing.
It has been sixty years since George Orwell wrote his chilling dystopian classic, 1984, and it has been thirty years since we saw the creepiest example of educated and free people willingly walking into a living dystopia. November 18, 1978, three decades ago, 918 people drank Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. Jim Jones, the communist leader of Jonestown, Guyana, had become “Big Brother.” Soviet and Communist Chinese propaganda films and condemnations of capitalist and imperialist America blared continually to the subjects of this island of Leftist Hell.
Jonestown ended in mass suicide, but the real horror was that ordinary people, Americans like you and I, had become so decoupled from reality and morality that they could be led to surrender everything, even their lives, intoxicated only with the venom of modern Leftism. These were Orwell’s Children.
OK, hold the phone. First of all, I want to to pay particular attention to the use of the term ‘communist’ being attached here to Jim Jones. This is perhaps the first time I’ve ever seen anyone acknowledge that fact. Certainly the press of the day was quite careful to ignore this salient point. You can guess why.
We are drifting into the sort of horrific future he described. Too many of us for comfort or solace have become just like the denizens of Jonestown: Orwell’s children — a new generation of creature enraged into constant militancy against eternal enemies, oblivious to the notion of a Blessed Creator, melded into the consciousness of the party hive, divorced from history, hypnotized by images, inoculated against reason, stripped of family, and existing only to serve the cause.
Sounds rather like Obama Nation, doesn’t it? Of course then, too, it sounds for all the world like Stalin, Hitler and, any number of other, as Walker calls them “odious totalitarianisms”. Each has their symbol. The comparisons don’t end there.Immutable oppressors are the final nasty element in dystopia. Hitler blamed Jews for everything. Stalin blamed kulaks and his enemies in the party for everything. Subjects of Orwell’s Oceania saw Emmanuel Goldstein as the eternal, immutable enemy of the party. Today there is a drearily predictable list of oppressors. Christians, men, white people, the “rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean), America, and Israel are oppressors and nothing can ever change that.
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