"Poverty Is Wealth." --- "Captivity Is Freedom." --- "Dissent Is Subversion."

[kpete]

Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs An Orwell



By paul craig roberts

America produces an endless supply of material for a new Orwell. Imagine what an Orwell could do with Hillary's recent speech on America's firm commitment to dissent and the First Amendment. CIA veteran Ray McGovern stood with his back to Hillary in an act of dissent from the Obama administration's policy of coercing Internet companies into helping to eliminate WikiLeaks as a source of information. McGovern was dragged beaten and bloody from the room, while Hillary continued praising America's commitment to dissent and freedom of information.

To capture this level of hypocrisy requires a George Orwell. "Dissent Is Subversion."

"Globalism" is another doctrine that needs Orwell's illumination. Globalism, which presidents since Clinton have told us we can't do without, enriches transnational corporations and turns workers into serfs who cannot earn enough to pay their bills. "Poverty Is Wealth."

The police state measures that accompany the fake "war on terror" subject Americans to far more danger and insecurity than could ever be realized from terrorists other than those of the state itself. "Captivity Is Freedom."


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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Our-Time-of-Universal-Dece-by-paul-craig-roberts-110314-949.html

[Kennah]

1. You forgot one: radiation is green

[TheKentuckian]

2. We live at or above maximum Orwell levels at all times.

Our reality would send the likes of Huxley and Orwell screaming.

[glitch]

6. We've been in Kafka territory since

we'll, at least one decade, YMMV.

[xchrom]

3. recommend

[Cleita]

4. Cornelia and her jewels.

There is an old tale dating back to ancient Rome about a poor matron named Cornelia. When her fellow matrons asked her where her jewels were, she gathered her children around her and pronounced that they were her jewels. This tale was of course to keep poor women happy with their lot. I doubt if many Patrician ladies gave their jewels away though to be happy with just their children.

And so it goes, how we were raised to believe that poverty makes you happy. It keeps you from demanding your fair share from the family who lives in the gated estate on the hill. We were also taught hard work would reward us, yet no one works harder than the immigrant in the field for a pittance. These are all tales to keep the proletariat from rebelling and demanding their due.

[Donnachaidh]

5. An appropriate one -- HOPE is Despair.

Lied to and left to fend for themselves -- all those folks who worked a miracle for what has turned out to be a total snowjob.