George Orwell.

[billy the kid]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/geo ... an-reality
No comment needed...

[billy the kid]

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/half ... ia-worsens
Well I suppose the link in the OP could be associated with this one...
After all, tyranny and hysteria is all part of Orwellianism....

[billy the kid]

Quote from 1984...
"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."

[billy the kid]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ar-reality
Not sure if this link belongs in this thread or the Behavioural Conditioning thread...
Doesnt matter I suppose...
Theres only one way to spell dystopia....T Y R A N N Y...
OR should that be...A U S T R A L I A...
Gotta go now...I think the thought police are at the door....

[billy the kid]

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/sys ... o-one-sees

Social cohesion...well..theres a misnomer if I ever saw one.....

"We've failed to limit the power of privileged elites, failed to demand greater sacrifices of the wealthy in exchange for power, and so the moral legitimacy of the regime has been lost. And with the ascendance of self-interest and the elite's abandonment of sacrifice, social cohesion has been lost.

This loss is reflected in the bitter partisanship, the increasingly Orwellian attempts to control the mainstream and social media narratives, the debauchery of "expertise" as dueling "experts" vie for control, the fraying of social discourse, the substitution of virtue-signaling for actual civic virtue, the institutionalization of white-collar crime (collusion, fraud, embezzlement, etc.), the increasing reliance on Bread and Circuses (stimulus, Universal Basic Income) as real opportunity dissipates, and the troubling rise in shootings, crime, random violence and plummeting marriage and birth rates.

The unravelling of social cohesion has consequences. Once social cohesion unravels, the nation unravels."
Aint that the truth...
As John Wayne once said....
"Life is pretty tough pilgrim....its even tougher if youre stupid...."

[billy the kid]

Hey George....
Tell me...were you talking about Australia in your book "1984"...

[AnaTom]

Sure were pilgrim

[billy the kid]

Big Brother loves you.....

[billy the kid]

You were right George....take a bow...
People driving up the street alone in their cars....wearing a mask...

[Valkie]

George Orwell was an optimist.