A Govt that openly sides with a perpetrator of war crimes including genocide & criminalises protest while appearing indifferent to the suffering of innocent victims exposes a deep hypocrisy: itâs not the citizens driven by conscience who threaten justice, but the state that suppresses them.
Right. So Angus Taylor that bastion of integrity, honesty and transparency in public life will begin surveilling people to ensure they live up to his own lofty standards before they can enter the country. Fantastic. Great Move. Well done Angus.
Billionaires delude themselves that they are fulfilling noble societal goals. But the net effect of their self serving influence has led us toTrump who stands at the epicentre of depravity. Oligarchs will burn our world before they spare a single thought for the victims of the wars that enrich them
Friends, express yourself as you see fit. Donât be cowed by any of these piss weak bought and paid for politicians. Any authority they exercise comes from us not the other way round. Say what you want to say, be who you want to be & fuck the lot of them.
Oh FFS stop this goddamn madness. Surely police have something better to do than harass artists for expressing inconvenient truths about the warmongering genocidal apartheid state. How about fighting real crime & stop clogging up the courts with costly litigation which will only end up the shredder.
Christian fundamentalists have nothing to offer citizens of a modern secular state. This guy should have become a clergyman not the Premier of QLD.Then he could rail all he likes against abortion same sex marriage etc & leave the majority of us the fuck alone. But of course the money is not as good
From a self proclaimed Tory fighter imbued with his late mumâs dedication to social justice values inc honesty fairness, equality, empathy, compassion, to a weak kneed defender/enabler of tyrannical warmongers. Whatâs next Albo? Paulineâs Ein Volk, Sky, AIPAC?
Trump Tower: How to get there: Take the Surface Paradise exit from the Felonious Fwy, proceed down Epstein Esplanade, past the Maxwell Mall, over Pedo Parade & arrive @ the main car park on Narcissists Way. Enjoy a free Orange Grifter cocktail with every room reservation.
And so the vile bloated carcass of the Emperor doesnât appear stark naked and thus offend our delicate Antipodean sensibilities, our leaderâs drape the Aussie flag over all the repulsive bits and whisper their safe word in unison - âRealpolitikâ.
Agree from a realpolitik perspective now-but protracted appeasement by bystander nations inc our own was an utter failure as well and we need to own that. Sadly, sabre rattling cosplay with partner nations in the aftermath of an horrific genocide is far too little far too lateâ for Palestinians.
Yes itâs a devastating coda and the fulfilment of OâBrienâs prophecy thus: âYou will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselvesâ.
By making the reader carry the emotional truth his characters can no longer bear, Orwell puts it all on on us to see that totalitarian tyrants of any persuasion never get the chance to realise the authorâs terrifying vision of a jackboot âstompingâ on the best aspects of our humanity forever.
But Orwell is not finished with us yet. Julia & Winstonâs individuality & feelings have been erased but WE remember exactly who they were and therefore We feel their grief, their shame, the devastating loss of their love on their behalf.
At the most primal level humans are hardwired to survive - everything else is subordinate to that fundamental priority when we are placed under unbearable stress.
I hasten to add that while the lovers still vaguely sense they have betrayed each other, it isnât really a betrayal at all. Orwell knew from his experiences in wartime that courage can be exhausted & torture does not appeal to reason, loyalty or love.
Furthermore human beings can indeed be annihilated & everything we hold sacred can be taken away from us. Under relentless torture humans will eventually do anything to end the suffering including giving up loved ones. Not a very âHollywoodâ ending is it?
The ending to 1984 is one of the most heartbreaking in all of literature and Orwell achieves this in two main ways. Firstly by reiterating an unnerving truth: Past a certain point & given the right circumstances love cannot save us.
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Syme doesnât just âtolerateâ the act of cutting â he revels in it. His enthusiasm shows how totalitarianism can seduce even the clever and cultured by appealing to intellectual vanity. His enjoyment is itself part of the evil Orwell wants us to see.
With respect, Syme loves language but only as an instrument of control. As he says: âThe whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thoughtâ. So while Syme enjoys the linguistic challenge, itâs a love of linguistic architecture in service of tyranny, not a scholarâs innocent delight.
Well said Dave. I will never forget. Israeli Zionists have ruptured the moral universe & started an ice cold war with mankind.
Fiat justitia ruat caelum.
âADF personnel say theyâd be very happy for Tony Abbott to lead the unexploded mines recovery teamâ.
Their compelling struggles and experiences under the yoke of a brutal all pervasive surveillance state are nightmarishly real. Orwell hoped theyâd be real enough to make readers question the stability and trajectory of their own nation states while there was still time to avoid political tyranny.
Itâs not realistic or particularly plausible that the Party could restrain or completely control the human spirit. But put aside the outlandish setting and youâll see 1984 is grounded by the very real drama of its characters.
Julia: ingenuity/creative thinking in arranging secret rendezvous with Winston; smuggling real tea, coffee
makeup; the reclamation of her body and sensual pleasure are all acts of subversive creativity - small human assertions of individuality over stifling state control.
Examples: Winstonâs diary, old poetry fragments (Oranges & Lemons) his dreams of Julia & the Golden Country, the coral paperweight, the unrestrained spontaneity of the washer womanâs voice - these are all small acts of rebellious creativity, doomed perhaps, but deeply human.
Since creativity is a form of self-expression and as Syme explains, âThoughtcrime is deathâ creativity cannot âflourishâ. However a few notable traces of creative rebellion exist above and below the surface of 1984.
There are no explicitly hopeful messages in the novel - quite the opposite:
âIf you want a vision of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human faceâforever.â
That said, 1984 was written precisely in the hope that the totalitarian hell hole depicted in the work would never come to fruition.
