If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever... George Orwell (1903-1950)

 

Many will quote solely the last line by Orwell, thus; "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." And rightly so, for immediately the imagination reels by the resulting contemplation then disturbance.

Yet the entire paragraph chills further the bones upon reading each sentence, every subject and predicate, any term even word. It is astonishing the seemingly prophetic or predictive nature of it. More accurately, the mere observation of current events then study of recent history, combined with understanding the covetous character and inevitable digression when expansive, excessive, extravagant the power thus governance; all naturally, logically facilitates the mind to innately  deduce then induce (ratiocinate) to similar propositions. Same is quite true if to read Etienne de La Boétie's 1577 essay Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, and more so the Old Testament passage 1st Samuel, chapter 8, verses 10 through 19.

Enough of my rambling, now the lengthy however noteworthy excerpt by Orwell....

"The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy—everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this, Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

George Orwell (1903-1950)
1984: Big Brother Is Watching You (1949)

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9 / 2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter... Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Atlas Shrugged (1957)

Yet, the 21st century Specie Human, upon the many academic endeavors well documented, of course, per countless diplomas, certificates, dissertations, journals, articles, books, then further confirmed again well documented by increasingly unsustainable debt, would rather propose, converse, debate, and argue over far more politic, agenda, opinion, preference, emotion, trend, whim, fancy, even delusion, thus far less reality.

Realities triggers the 21st century Specie Human thereupon emotes, saddens, weeps, even angers, maddens, hates, then disrupts, ruins, destroys as well harms him/herself and violates others, when presented with evidences, facts, causalities, scarcities, limitations, etc.

The aforementioned state of mind gravely digresses once arriving to maturity and beyond, if suggested to fully else partially bear his/her inherent responsibilities and risks, thereby the rage maniacally, lunatically, psychotically intensifies, covetously without reason hence depravedly without awareness, observation, logic, consistency, ethic, morality, and piety.

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9 / 2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath...

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9 / 2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23

Come, let us Reason!

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9 / 2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23

Lets go over one more time, boys and girls, the follow isms and the observable, logical, consistent definitions...

 

Lets go over one more time, boys and girls, the follow isms and the observable, logical, consistent definitions. If understood in breadth and depth, then one would be slow to blame the other party over his/her preferred party, rather quick to criticize both equally thus for identical and/or similar reasons...

INDIVIDUALISM; the constant respect hence consistent regard for each and every person's Peculiar Human Ability to Reason as manifested per the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on ALL matters.

In stark contrast as well inhumanely antagonistic...

COMMUNISM; the forceful bottom-up confiscatory methodology towards total control of the economy, thereby property and production owned collectively, publicly, centrally thus governmentally.

FASCISM; the forceful top-down regulatory methodology towards total control of the economy, thereby property and production owned individually, privately yet regulated centrally thus governmentally nevertheless.

CRONYISM or CORPORATISM; similarly Fascism in part although eventually whole, progressing incrementally, digressing inevitably towards the same total control of the economy (i.e. United States, most other western democracies).

SOCIALISM; the necessary power-exchange or political barter for Fascism, Communism, Cronyism or Corporatism, achieving governmental authority and jurisdiction by seducing the masses to forgo Individualism or Individual sovereignty in part or whole while appeased, subsidized, purchased with services, goods, monies underwritten by aforesaid Fascistic regulatory or Communistic confiscatory appropriations of each and every person’s purse, possession, property and production and the subjugation of the same person’s propensity, prerogative, preference and purpose.

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9 / 2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23

US Government and America covetously, presumptuously, arrogantly remains unaware, unmindful, unconcerned, uncaring, else unmoved, certainly unrepentant and unchanged, ergo critical lessons yet learned... My apologies.

 

The 1910 painting entitled The First Fight for Independence, Lexington Common, April 19, 1775 by English artist William Barnes Wollen (1857-1936), currently displayed at the National Army Museum in London, England.

At onset I shall declare quite clearly, ardently, historically, logically, consistently, ethically. All were avoidable whether the American Revolutionary War's first battles at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, or the War of 1812's first volley cannoned upon Captain John Rodgers' orders from deck of the frigate USS President off Long Island's coast in New York, else the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor of South Carolina, as well the Japanese aerial attack on Peal Harbor in Hawaii, the Gulf of Tonkin incident per initial shots fired by USS Maddox near North Vietnamese islands, the destruction and death per hijacked commercial passenger jets suicidally flown into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington County of Virginia, as well crashed in Somerset County of Pennsylvania, and most if not all those US wars and conflicts amid these tragedies and since 11 September 2001.

With that said, my sympathies and prayers for those who perished among the aforementioned events as well the surviving families then descendants, in some cases generations.

Still to this day as prior to 9/11 hence 21st century, US Government continues to maintain and expand foreign influence, intervention, interference, imposition, intrusion, infiltration, invasion politically, socially, militarily, economically, financially, monetarily therefore manipulatively even aggressively while covertly as well overtly, in the very same manner domestically, minimally since 1913, however arguably since summer of 1787 then 1788, 1791, 1794, 1795, 1801, 1803, 1812, 1823, to merely exemplify thus more... much more!

US Government and America covetously, presumptuously, arrogantly remains unaware, unmindful, unconcerned, uncaring, else unmoved, certainly unrepentant and unchanged, ergo critical lessons yet learned.

My apologies.

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9 / 2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23

Every nation has the government it deserves... Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1753-1821), and two other quotes by James Madison and Francis Schaeffer...

 

As national, societal, communal, and personal morality continue to regularly, covetously decline towards widespread depravity, unavoidably so too the quality of candidates therefore the integrity of politicians proportionately, covetously decline towards widespread corruption, connivance, complicity, collaboration, collusion, chicanery, cronyism, conspiracy, coverup, and more.

"Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite." Translation; "Every nation has the government it deserves."

Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1753-1821)
Lettres et Opuscules (1811)

"What is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections of human nature?"

James Madison (1751-1836)
Federalist Paper No. 51 (1788)

To note, Madison's quote and article first published in 1788 by the newspapers New York Independent Journal, New-York Packet, and The Daily Advertiser, later known as Federalist Paper No. 51 compiled along with articles by John Jay and Alexander Hamilton. Additionally, the rightly counter-arguments are worthy of study, known as the Anti-Federalist Papers, articles written by Patrick Henry, George Mason, Melancton Smith, Samuel Adams, and others who ardently objected the 2nd constitution schemed in Philadelphia the summer of 1787.

Lastly, the quote, book, thus reason I twice included the adverb "covetously"...

"The climax of the Ten Commandments is the Tenth Commandment – 'Thou shat not covet' – Actually we break this last commandment, not to covet, before we break any of the others. Any time that we break one of the other commandments of God, it means that we have already broken this commandment, in coveting."

Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984)
True Spirituality (1971)

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9 / 2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23