1984

I had a post censored at the Huffington Post, which I will post at the bottom.  More importantly, though, I wanted to discuss what this, to me, symbolizes.  You will note in reading it that the closest I come to being abusive is referring to “lefties”.  Compared to what I am called dozens of times daily when I am actively blogging on the left wing sites, this is extremely mild.

At issue, I’m sure, is the fact that I challenge their world view.  The simple reality is that OF COURSE the demographics of this election show that Democrats have created a de facto coalition that is likely to continue to win them the White House.  They have promised stupid people stuff, and delivered enough of it to get them to the polls.

But this does not affect the TRUTH that we are accruing some $5 trillion in added debt annually, right now.  That is $42,000 PER HOUSEHOLD, PER YEAR, RIGHT NOW.  Now, Democrats are exultant.  They are happy.  They see themselves winning forever, and are ecstatic that the Republicans might make a turn to the right.  That will get them even more votes.

But it won’t prevent an economic catastrophe.  The truth is the truth.

And to the point, I would submit that totalitarianism STARTS with simple but meaningful lies.  It starts with people like Arianna Huffington–intelligent, educated, capable of rational thought–LYING about the future.  She could put up stories about our debt.  She could deal responsibly with it if she wanted to. 

But she doesn’t want to.  She doesn’t want to hear it.  She wants to flush me down a memory hole.  She wants to make me an unperson.  I’m like the person on The Truman Show shouting out “it’s not read, Truman”, and being grabbed and removed.

Now, OF COURSE this is not how she thinks.  I don’t know how she rationalizes it–likely simply by labeling what I say fabrication without doing even rudimentary investigation–but the reality is that if we get something like 1984–and that appears the way we are headed–it will be because people like her claimed rhetorically that they feared totalitarian rule, that they feared Big Brother, that they wanted what was best for America, but DID THE OPPOSITE. 

Is government getting bigger or smaller?  This is a simple question.  If it is getting bigger, then we are getting closer to Big Brother. 

More importantly: are the LIES getting bigger or smaller?  Will Benghazi be successfully flushed down a memory hole?  Will Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glenn Doherty, and Tyrone Woods be made unpersons?  Will we lie in our public propaganda forums about the true extent of our problems until our only option is a plan like mine, and one which will likely not be proposed?

1984 is an ascent of the demonic.  It is demons ruling the world.  And the first step, the very first one, is when you CHOOSE to lie to yourself.  The cruelist sadist on the face of the planet had at some point to deny to him or herself that she felt emotional pain, and that it mattered.

The reelection of Barack Obama is in many respects symptomatic of the triumph of the lie.  America has told itself its first big lie.  That cannot be good.

I will add that, embarrassingly, I have never read 1984. I am reasonably erudite, so this is a large gap.  I just read the summary this morning, and realized that Orwell, also, concluded that sadism is the dominant element in totalitarianism.  Believe it or not, I had reached my conclusions without familiarity with his work.  I have only read his essay on the English language.

I do wonder sometimes what it would be like to be tortured.  In a totalitarian regime, the only honorable response is to be killed (although in some cases suicide might be acceptable).  Everyone has a breaking point in torture.  I don’t doubt that.  Where it is will vary, but once you exceed it, where it was becomes irrelevant.  And of course mind control techniques will have improved since Orwell’s time.

My feeling is that minds are machines.  They can be broken.  But spirits do not inhere fully in our bodies.  I believe we are duplicates of something much more perfect up above, and as long as in our free will we adhere to good principles, what we are forced to do does no permanent harm.  That is my hope.  It is what we do with our whole being that is wrong that permanently harms us.

And even permanence is an invalid concept.  I posted some time ago a vision, a myth, of what would happen if the Fascists took over the earth, and implemented their sadistic regime.  It would be awful for 100, 200, 1,000, or perhaps 10,000 years.  But it would wane.  The world of the Hunger Games was destined for perhaps 200 years of existence (note: I have no idea what happens in the second two books, but let’s assume there was only one book), because the people of Panem had nothing to live for, other than their cruelty and sybaritic pursuits.  Some other social order would have taken over, that may have been as bad or worse; or better.

But man’s life has been brutish and short for most of our millions of years here, and brutish and short for most of recorded history, in ways related to famines, wars, pestilence, and the like.

It is courage that matters, heart (coeur).  We cannot directly control the future.

But FUCK YOU Arianna.

Speaking
as a principled conservative, I would say our biggest failing in this
election was picking a moderate for President. Still it may work out for the best.  After four more years of
Obama, after four more years of economic decline, substantial and
noticeable alterations in our healthcare system for the worse, rising
insurance premiums, skyrocketing debt (his first four years were just a
warmup), debt downgrades, and misery that is worst among Obama voters,
an actual conservative is either going to look like a tonic, or our
future is national bankruptcy and preventable and foolish economic
devastation.

Lefties are skilled at polling. I noticed that
long ago. Rather than ask “what is right”, they ask “what do our voters
want us to tell them”. If you do this long enough, you get good at it.

But the truth is the truth. Among the truths not told on this website,
and very few other places, our national deficit, if we used the
accounting methods in universal use everywhere else, including State and
Local governments, is something on the order of $5 trillion a YEAR. We
borrowed outright 1.2 trillion (again, a warmup), but we accrued
liabilities to Social Security and Medicare for which we have NO funding
reserved to the tune of another $4 trillion.

I literally could
not look myself in the mirror if my politics focused on winning
elections, and not on sober and coherent analysis of our actual
problems, and on a sense of responsible custodianship of this once-great
nation for my children.