1984 Revisited

I just re-read “1984″ by George Orwell, who wrote it in 1949. It’s depressing, to put it mildly, although a few sentences, and even a paragraph or two make sense, and allowed me to see a few things a bit more clearly. You can’t read too many books! I read 30-40 a year, and even that isn’t enough I suspect!

From page 129 (mine is a paperback) comes this sentence or two: “They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding, they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass indigested through the body of a bird.

Isn’t that a perfect description of 95% of Americans, who are literally ‘know nothings,’ and don’t even care? If that were not true, how could Obama ever have been elected? Currently, the vaporous news speak are swallowing every morsel of the George Zimmerman murder trial in Florida. When he is probably found innocent, watch for the black riots, maybe everywhere in the US, but certainly in Florida. Who cares about it? The average American is so fascinated by football, and watching commercial loaded commercial TV, that as Orwell put it, they swallow every Democrat-Obama utterance, and never even give it a thought.

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