What struck me last time I read 1984 was how much I had missed in it. It’s much much more than the images of brutal repression we tend to remember.
I was struck by how familiar the Party’s mind control methodology now seems – with the emphasis on invented, irrational narrative and willing suspension of critical faculties.
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Yes, that's the common argument, and somehow it just keep failing, again and again and again.
The problem is that it is impossible to kill, due to mans infinite stupidity.
You can explain from a scientific and financial and psychological point of view why communism will always fail, yet, the only reply is "that was not real communism".
@freepatriot And liechenstein, and monaco, and san marino. Many small countries disprove that. You could add Singapore to the list as well.
Because they ahve never experienced communism up close. They therefore are susceptible to the error of it being some kind of utopia.
Ask anyone aged 45- or even 65- in the former soviet union what they think of socialism and communism, and you will hear a unanimous "horrible" from them.
@freepatriot No one is surprised. There is literally no difference between the police and enforcer in a maffia gang. At the end of the of the day, the state does what it wants, regardless of if its law or not, and 99% have nothing they can do against it due to todays joke of a legal system, which also, is enforced by the state.