Orwell 1984 Is The True Description Of Current
Political Lies And The Human Oppression
Required To Win Elections.

Orwell 1984 is a well-known and much studied novel taken to be a “dystopia” or story about a fictional bad utopia. Like Huxley’s Brave New World it is taught in modern high schools without any realization that these books are not at all fictionalized other world, but only a vision of where society is currently heading.

The amazing ability of “modern” scholarship to study every detail of Orwell 1984, to put this work under a microscope while ignoring the total import overall is impressive. Orwell described quite clearly why he wrote, that every word was meant to express his opposition to all totalitarianism and to advocate his the peaceful, democratic values of his beloved English Socialism or Ingsoc in terms of his book Orwell 1984.

Clearly the vital detail is not at all what is found on page such and such of the novel, but why Orwell came to believe that all political parties in the “modern” world would do exactly the most horrible totalitarian oppression of their own citizens. This is the punch line of Orwell 1984—The English Socialism I have written to support for the last dozen years of my life will grow into everything I hate within a few more decades.

Orwell started writing 1984 just after the devastation of the Second World War. The Labor Party which was his beloved democratic socialist party came to power and Orwell could see them not operating with the openness and ideals he loved, but with the necessary requirements to maintain public approval and win their next election.

One could say this was just the necessary and reasonable adjustments from a small opposition party upon becoming the ruling party. One could excuse it as the difficult personal experience of a man dying of tuberculosis whose medical treatment was written into his novel as torture. There are many excuses if one wishes to ignore the obvious point of Orwell’s prophetic vision.

Orwell 1984 has great power upon most of its readers. Earlier essays on the Politics of the English Language pointed out how various euphemisms mask the terrible import of politically oppressive government actions. What is new in 1984 is its depiction of how the last decent man in Europe is easily destroyed as part of a government program to maintain total loyalty and political control.

What Orwell 1984 doesn’t describe is the fundamental reason why this totalitarian political oppression is the necessary outgrowth of the British War economy going back to the time of King William and Mary. William was a Dutchman with interests in the politics of the Continent. He needed an army on the Continent in addition to the British Royal Navy to not only protect England but also expand its influence overseas.

The British are an island people who love their navy as their protector and the escort to their merchant fleet bringing them home vast wealth from their foreign colonies. The British people feared a standing army as a threat to their local liberties. William was only allowed to become King William III when he ruled with his wife Queen Mary II who was a native British lass. He could only raise a standing army that would be stationed in Europe with the English Channel protecting the British from his British army.

The importance of the 1701 calendar timing event of the War of the Spanish Succession is that it marked the establishment of the new war economy supported by government debt bonds to pay for the military supply contracts of the corporations on the London Stock Exchange. These were not the entire economy, but a large enough chunk of it with a clear and certain annual outlay to establish and support this securities market system.

Once established, an economy run on securities based upon the continuing needs of the military-industrial complex would require ongoing wars and preparation for war to keep the economy sound. This continuous requirement for government supply contracts would make winning elections a matter of being the party that best supported this war economy. Once the economy is fixed to an expected securities market percentage rate of increase peace becomes the economy of prosperity.

Orwell 1984 describes the result of this war economy securities system without having any elections or securities markets mentioned. All that appears in the novel are the continuous wars required to support the constant war production which is the backbone of this war economy.

However, folks object to constant death and destruction in their own home neighborhoods. There are far simpler means of controlling public opinion than the heavy surveillance and arrest illustrated in Orwell 1984. A system that runs on a securities market can’t focus solely on war destruction. Other consumer goods are needed to complete the national securities portfolio.

Huxley’s Brave New World describes where “modern” education reform is heading and the soulless society it supports. It was an accurate description of the intents of John Dewey and the Education Reform movement of the 20th century. He also captures the way a population will easily accept total control if they are allowed convenient groups to belong to and extensive consumer goods and recreations to absorb their personal attention.

The Education Reform Movement got derailed by the Civil Rights movement and the actions by parents not wanting to abandon the classical liberal arts education for their children to accept whatever jobs corporations needed filled by trained but obedient workers. The uselessness of “modern” education is still not fully understood.

The problems with our youth is mostly that they still are being given a useless reformed education rather than being taught the tools for free and independent thought and allowed to informed their elders about the demands of the Future. Much of that refusal to listen to the independent thought of Youth is the need to maintain the constant war economy with its treadmill of abstract percentage rate increases to support stock prices.

Young people think of peace and freedom. They listen and absorb everything around them and are eager to tell their elders what they have learned. That there are better goals than an abstract 10% growth rate is pretty clear cut to anyone who bothers to look at what that entails in pollution, destruction and excess marketing. Only their elders can be so focused upon the treadmill of required production to refuse to listen or believe.

Marketing is essential to maintaining an overall heated economy. In Orwell 1984 the basic marketing is for the head of the national family, Big Brother. In “modern” American everything is a matter of marketing. Political candidates, whatever products are cheapest to produce that can be sold for the best profit margins, the general ignorance and acceptance of the treadmill war economy system.

Marketing alone wears off in awhile. The human brain adjusts to whatever is constant and ignores it to focus upon what is new and might be important or at least dangerous. The marketing economy requires new products all the time. Some of them are designed to be profitable in consumer sales. Some are designed to be supportive of the marketing system in general.

Terror threats, crack cocaine, video games that absorb all attention in pressing buttons on a monitor devoid of reality, and negative political campaign ads are all products developed to hook the population into activities that serve the economy and destabilize family life. Combined with the constant need for percentage rate increases in profits that require more work for less net pay from the employees most of the problems of current life are a direct consequence of the economic system built on the stock market of corporate quarterly reports.

Orwell 1984 describes what this system and its underlying eternal war and government deception feels like. “Modern education” responds by teaching how to focus upon the details of the bark to ignore the simple reality of the tree and its forest of inhuman nonsense. Orwell 1984 is a product of the immediate post-World War II realities in Britain as it was not being rebuilt to allow for the continuing build up of war supplies for the next war.

The other great movement to arise from this post-war era was the Baby Boomers and their inherent opposition to their parents’ generation with its total focus solely upon material success. This is the expression of Pluto in Leo or Ultimate Commitment to Crowning Glory (and abstract ideals high overhead) vs. their parents who grew up in the Great Depression and fought the Second World War as teens.

Their parents also had an Ultimate Commitment to visions in the sky. However they were Pluto in Cancer- their Ultimate Commitment was to Poignant Feelings and to the concrete ideals expressed by clouds—to provide nourishment and development of the economy. A roommate of mine recounted the discussion with his father who said, “When I was young, all I could think about was finding something to fill my belly. I want you to be able to think about something better.”

When my roommate replied,”he was thinking about something better, he didn’t care about materialism that why was involved in student protests” his father gave him the look of total disbelief that only exists from a parent to their offspring who they can not imagine saying something.

Eventually we figured it out. The something better in his father’s mind was coming to appreciate fine dining. Not finding anything to fill your belly but having the material success and sophistication to find the finest restaurants with the best wines and dishes to savor. Abstract ideals and especially anything that would upset the economic system were not even conceivable to the World War II generation.

Since then, Pluto has moved out of the Area of Visions Overhead. With the launching of Sputnik Pluto was in Virgo, Ultimate Commitment to Detailed Expression. The Cold War was taking a turn into Space. Actually, Sputnik has now been explained from the Soviet point of view. They considered it a toy of no importance. Their concern was the constant provocation of U.S. bombers testing their air defense systems by violating their air space to show off U.S. air superiority which the Russians could not counter.

Unable to match the U.S. bomber fleets, their military moved to the only deterrent they could design ever more powerful missiles to carry nuclear warheads. Since they built them as big as they could the missiles had excess capacity. The one fellow interested in artificial satellites took one of these missiles and designed the simplest Sputnik satellite he could to get it launched immediately.

To the Soviet leaders, it was just a toy to remind the U.S. military that they had deterrents even if they didn’t have an equivalent nuclear bomber fleet. To the U.S. public who had been marketed in the style of Orwell 1984 that there was a total war threat from the Soviets that required vast military spending and a peacetime conscription program it was a new terror.

A Soviet missile had launched the first satellite which could be seen and its radio beacon heard several times a day in the Midwest heartland where no war had penetrated before this Cold War. The light in the sky was an accident; the second stage booster followed Sputnik into orbit and reflected light. The brief Morse code letters broadcast was just the Detailed expression which resonated with the new Pluto position. It sounded like Paul Revere’s cry to the Minute Men combined with the shock of invasion and attack of Pearl Harbor.

What had started as an American bit of bravado against a former ally now selected to be the whipping boy for the Cold War military build up turned into a massive defeat for the U.S. military. Everyone knew the Soviets were at that moment of Detailed Expression totally ahead of any U.S. capability. By the time the U.S. managed a successful satellite launch the damage had been done.

Education for new ideas and free thinking creativity was a national priority just in time and me and other baby boomers to get the tools to see through the Orwell 1984 endless and fruitless war machinery for stock market percentage rate gains. We learned to think and to look critically at the convenient patriotic civics classes we were given.

When we studied hard, we found that our elders in true Orwell 1984 fashion were lying to us and ignoring all the principles of our Constitution and American Democracy. Like all well-fed and happily raised children we happily reported to our elders what we had learned from our studies. The blind and irrational response amazed and dismayed us, so we studied more about it.

The more we studied the clearer it became they were on the Orwell 1984 track of government deception and citizen obedience. What was a totally right of center non-rebellious student generation, grateful for their background of wealth and ease, but like Siddhartha also not very attached to it became insurgent revolutionaries the same as the Founding Fathers reacted to the mad Folly of King George III.

It is important to read Orwell—he was a great story teller and a prophetic visionary. It is also important to realize what he didn’t see—the economic treadmill of stock market percentage rate increases that made the political corruption of all parties the way he so accurately saw them. Orwell 1984 is the clarion call of warning that the government and our educational system and marketing techniques are betraying our Democracy.

Here is my favorite site on Orwell today—
Why Orwell Wrote and Orwell Today

And if you haven’t read Orwell 1984 here is a site from Canada where the book is in the public domain.

Read Orwell's entire Novel 1984 and other good stuff

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