The really depressing thing is that there are any number of excellent documentaries out there (including the superb Orwell Rolls In His Grave), and yet the same, fascism-by-another-name system that is catigated in documentaries over and over and over again just keeps getting stronger and stronger. It defies logic in the normal sense, but we're not dealing with ANY degree of normalcy these days.
It is all so extremely frustrating. It doesn't seem to matter how many progressive voices scream out across the universe, the super-powerful forces drown them out and continue, unabated, to rape our minds. Corporate concentration just keeps getting more intense, and it's now possible to envision a capitalist world with perhaps 2-3 mega-corporations-cum-governments controlling our minds and absolutely everything else, all with the more-than-willing complicity of token politicians. That's really the essence of Orwell's message in '1984'.
The world is well on its way to an unmitigated disaster. 'Democracy' is laughable, as this film vividly shows. The most powerful politician in the world is a goofy puppet (Dubya Bush) who was never really elected to that post -- TWICE. Our societies are governed by utterly corrupt and criminal media, politicians and corporations, and we are no match for them.
Orwell was a prophet, maybe the first and only real prophet.
Be very afraid.
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roegrocks
16 years ago
Don't be afraid. Really. It doesn't help anything. Fear is driving this whole thing, so try to be relaxed and see what's really going on, then do something about it. Anger can get you off the couch and into action, but not fear.
BTW, "America: Freedom to Fascism" is excellent and came out since "Orwell Rolls in His Grave"
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