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