Orwell and Republicanism2006

The Grand Old Party is surely old and over said the Government Of Desperately Duped People?

circa Orwell 1984
Attention everyone......The telescreen struck fourteen. He (Winston) must leave in ten minutes. He had to be back at work by fourteen-thirty. The voice from the telescreen paused. A trumpet call, clear and beautiful, floated into the stagnant air. The voice continued raspingly:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Winston wrote….
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone -- to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink -- greetings! He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step. The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

He wrote:
Thoughtcrime does not entail death:
Thoughtcrime IS death.
Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink......

Doublethink
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

Orwell’s Ministry of Truth portends The Republican Party Leadership

Doublethink is now the call of the day......Having been in the Presidential Office for six years with the luxury of a majority in the House and in the Senate, the Republican Party seems totally incapable of governing this nation. They were ushered into office with a mandate of the populace, with themselves swearing to reform government, restore moral and family values, and to make America strong again. What they now leave us with is a multi-trillion dollar budget deficit, an unpopular war in Iraq that was started based on a multitude of coordinated lies regarding weapons of mass destruction and fighting the front of terrorism, voting irregularities, moral scandals, inappropriate political/business dealings with lobbyists, Nosama Bin Laden capture, an unstable Middle East, a fractionalized Western coalition, a hapless bungler of foreign policy, and on it goes. He touts having cut taxes but the result of the cuts are fewer jobs and more government debt due to an unbalanced budget.

Yet still, they ask for more years in office. To do WHAT? Are there new proposals for solutions of this current malaise one might ask? “Stay the course" they say. Stay the course? Don’t they even realize we’re off-course? And now that it’s time for mid-term elections, they resort to doing what they do best…..negative mudslinging using specious sound-bite advertising that has worked for them in the past because the general public has resorted to receiving their news knowledge from trusted advisors like Limbaugh, O'Reilly and Hannity, each pundits who've found a way to make a superior living beyond their acumen. They couldn't debate a good high school debate team. Yes, they rally the call of the wild from the Speakright media horn, helping ensconce more "kindler, gentler conservatives into office again and again.

Let’s face it right now -

This Republican administration can't be trusted with governing anymore! How could government get so bungaled? Did they promise too much and now owe too much to too many?

In the past, they’ve known how to get elected using Newspeak, the language of The Ministry of Truth……nonetruth. Negative...negative…..negative……negative. Who cares about actual truth even when the evidence stares them blatantly in the face and the opposition criticizes them for their ineptness? They resort to more Newspeak of carefully-crafted sound bites, reconstructing and misrepresenting known fact while calling the diminished opposition non-patriots, cut-and-runners, and other adolescent phrases that resound throughout their political base in a “tipping-point fashion.” Their view of defending democracy and only their view is much maligned with the Party view from Orwell’s 1984 where the constituencies responses have become a chorus of agreement for whatever course The Party has chosen by simply stating…..B..B-B…..B, over and over again in agreement….B…B…B...like babbling sheep. You dare not think and formulate your own thoughts; only The Party has vision and controls The Ministry of Truth.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

....But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately. 'Reality control', they called it: [in Newspeak, 'doublethink']

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....The little sandy haired woman had flung herself forward over the back of the chair in front of her. With a tremulous murmur that sounded like 'My Saviour!' she extended her arms towards the screen. Then she buried her face in her hands. It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer. At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of 'B-B! ...B-B!' -- over and over again, very slowly, with a long pause between the first 'B' and the second-a heavy, murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of which one seemed to hear the stamp of naked feet and the throbbing of tom-toms. For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold. In the Two Minutes Hate he could not help sharing in the general delirium, but this sub-human chanting of 'B-B! ...B-B!' always filled him with horror. Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.

Fellow Americans, this condition we’re in is not the result of bad American values but of "bad judgment." We are not minions of the state that are in need of being spied upon to protect us. Can we on one hand defend our way of life while with the other hand attempt to take away our liberties which are our way of life? We need not fight totalitarianism, only to succumb to the slipery slope of a symbiosis of the very thing we fight.

What happened to Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death call?" No, we haven't forgoten 9-11-2001! We'll get our enemies. But we are still a courageous people who's president once said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." I recently read a comment in The Memphis Flyer newspaper stating that President Bush's comments would probably have been - "the only thing we have to fear is.......everything?" That's fear-based politics.

Thought Police

And what about the eavesdropping intrusions; are they to be the beginning of the need for a Thought Police as in 1984? The government is accountable to us. We hold them accountable through a functional democracy with a corresponding right to vote candidates and administrations into office and out of office. We are free to criticize them when their policies won't hold water. The time has come to boot the dominant party decision-makers out of office and let’s get some new, maybe even more youthful visionaries of a brighter tomorrow into elected offices for posterity sake.Let’s forget allegiances. This time, vote the better candidate, even if the man or woman is a Democrat, Republican, or an Independent, should they be so deserving. Yes, this is a referendum. This administration is not deserving a re-election or the support that came with it.

Don't you hear the bell of freedom ringing?

I’m voting for CHANGE! Join me.

When Knowledge Reins Absent

Are the people destroyed for a lack of knowledge?

The problems are not DNA!

While driving through the Heavenly Hollow area in Memphis to give my sister a lift to the beauty shop, my antenna was up and receiving conscious signals being fired from my subconscious mind about the current condition of a once vibrant community.

What happened to Heavenly Hollow I wondered? This was a fine middle-class neighborhood where other communities came to shop. Now many find themselves trapped here colloquially know it as “Heavenly Hood”, a slang for neighborhoods inside impoverished communities where disorder exist.

The big box retail stores were boarded-up, the quaint shops were abandoned, the fine-eating establishments were now replaced with fast food eateries, the flower beds and well-manicured lawns were the exception and the economy now seemed to revolve around hair affairs, Chinese food, and chicken wing establishments. Lots of chicken wing places. Was there some contest to see who made the best ones? And the convenience stores run by immigrants selling gasoline in increments of $5.00 worth. The pawnshops and check-cashing locations now replaced banks. Small clothing shops opened to satisfy the all important apparrel wear. Yes, the mainstream businesses had left to follow the "mass-money trail," but this was phenomenal decay. Who owned these ghost-inhabited buildings? How do they pay for them? Yet some stayed – Walgreens and Kroger. Food and drugs. Thank you. I'd seen these image in Manytown, USA.

There is also the miasma of increasing violence and crime - random gunfire - gang behavior - and subsequent psunami-like wake of death and destruction.

Now these depictions by no means represent the majority of the community members. They too want good things for their families. It is the subjective minority within the community whose parasitic force act against the community that bring havoc. Their actions upon the community at large deliver the negative messages. They prey upon the majority with growing success enticing the young with self-delusional deceptions of wealth, power, and fear.

They and their new luxury cars and $5000 spinning wheels, old cars and $5,000 spinning wheels, sonic boom speakers that vibrate the glass secured by bondo, blasting vulgar raps not so they can hear them but so others can see them who blast the sounds. And society at large is there to offer up these trapping symbols to them - of course at a giant profit. What happens when the $1500 tires need replacing, or the $1200 wheel is bent? No, its about "what's happening now." Right now!

These lost young and their "misplaced symbols of wealth," are the purveying forces of ignorance. They are the hosts and carriers of the epidemic. They can't find their way in the mainstream for more reasons than their own. Are they victims? Of course! Do they adapt? Of course! And then they replicate their values with new rules in a subculture for own survival. This is the reality. And the majority, whether they are trapped in the community or they are observing the decay and run to new communities, we must deal with them. Why? Because they export values.

As I drove, I could feel in the air – an invisible force – leaving clear visible evidence of a value change - a sort of behaviorial pattern - an attitudal essence that sought to control thought. This “force” was like an invisible fog of malevelence about the community. It was creeping in and over and around. Though it wasn't pervasive throughout the community, it was certainly invasive at an alarming rate. Clearly the community was becoming collectively unconscious of it. As it was being allowed to rein it was fast becoming the collective consciousness. Mainly because not enough citizens were utilizing the power available to each of us. Or they weren't aware of it.

Power overcomes force because it is a presence whose content of energy is inherent and inexhaustible. Logarithmically greater! But "no one had noticed the candy wrapper being thrown out the automobile window." It was such a small thing that it really didn't seem to matter. Now, all can see the mountainous residual effects when we are collectively unconscious to the incremental root causes of our condition and are not united to combat them.

There was also an oasis in the midst of this consciousness – a church that seemed to breathe and broadcast to the community of the availability of a new direction for our life experience. We don't have to wait to die to have abundant life. It was a voice of hope. "But too many of us look for miracles from somewhere else." Yes, there are many, many churches in the area with collective memberships that far outnumber the social deviants, so this can't be a war of being out-numbered by the perpetrators of disorder.

This epiphany of the church, which has played a leadership role in our community for so long, leads me to paradoxical conflict more fitting another discussion. But my cognitive dissonance from this state will serve us well to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to at least modify our existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between our cognition regarding collective consciousness.

Now this thesis is really about hope and the energy to power that hope toward the life of our own direction. But do we have direction or are we simply present – existing – waiting for miraculous transformation? What role have we played thusfar in our shaping of who we are and our conditional existence? Can we play a more-leading and shaping role? Must we live life prescribed by others or one described by ourselves? Are we left to be bound by aberant forces in our immediate community or even the larger community of humanity? How can we liberate ourselves from this condition we find ourselves? In the absence of light do we only live to curse the darkness? There is no profit to be gained there.

No. We must search for Light that illuminates our very existence. When we are made aware of our internal Light, given to us by God, we can gain broader and deeper understanding of that Light. It presents itself as raw powerful presence called Energy. We can then find the pathway and utilize the energizing power to move from the turmoil of our unwanted conditions. When we allow our internal light to shine externally to be seen and patterned by others, we help to make them powerful. That is the awareness of the relationship between us and our environment, which is consciousness, and when others see it and pattern themselves via behavior, its infectious nature is passed on to yet others and is then deemed collective consciousness.

Every little bit of change affects collective consciousness. Take the notion that by throwing a small piece of paper wrapping from a candy mint out your car window – it would seem that it doesn’t really matter. It’s just a small piece of paper. Then it becomes a coffee cup…then a burger wrapper…then a bag of food wrappings…then a bag of garbage…then an old sofa…then an abandoned car…and so on. Malcolm Gladwell described this behavioral pattern as the “broken window syndrome” in his book The Tipping Point about how small changes become large because it appears no one cares and the behavior becomes infectious.

In his book Virus of The Mind, Richard Brodie wrote about memes, which were stated to be the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life. These memes are invisible packets of information that can be transferred from one being to another. These packets contain definitions and behavioral traits inside them. There are good memes and bad memes. The good or the bad – not in its usual context – but good or bad in its ability to attract attention itself and therein, extend its existence by replication to another person or group. There are several exciting conclusions in exploring memology, one of which is the ability to predict that ideas will spread not because they are "good ideas", but because they contain "good memes" such as danger, food and sex that push our evolutionary buttons and force us to pay attention to them.

According to ‘Emile Durkheim, the French social scientist, individual desires are limitless and constrained only by external social forces. These bounds constitute the collective consciousness, which is embodied in a culture's formal and informal norms and values. These are expressed in a variety of ways, ranging from codified rules and laws (eg, speed limits on the highway), to more informal rules that exist only in the heads of the culture that shares the collective (eg, it's polite to cover your mouth when you sneeze). These shared norms provide common ideological ground for members of a society, and ensure that members act in agreed-upon ways. Parents - this is why our children often behave counter-intuitively to the way we taught them - that in the subculture - they have to agree with it to be "cool".

Durkheim defined the term anomie as a condition where social and/or moral norms are confused, unclear, or simply not present. Durkheim felt that this lack of norms--or pre-accepted limits on behavior in a society--led to deviant behavior. If left unabated, it could become the norm.

We are now left to deal with the consequences of a lack of awareness of our self, our consciousness, our collective consciousness and our individual role in collective consciousness. In the Heavenly Hollow example, we have seen how these consequences occur and even behaviorial traits are transmitted to each other to formulate cultural patterns that seem to retard our progress in our life experience. We must still deal with being human and living human lives, which is our human condition of anomie.

There are many more worthy narratives of greater human suffering that seem genocidal and this is certainly not one of them. But surely, we can see the tendencies that incubate homicide of the human spirit.

So, can we change our experience? And if so, how do we begin to change our human conditional state? The short answer is yes, we can clean up the Heavenly Hollows of our lives, but we must first attend to the ‘Heavenly Hoods’ and their root causes.

I mean no offense by the effrontery of this statement: Ignorance is the diseased collective consciousness of our Heavenly Hollow community's current condition. The conditions of our communities are “not at ease” but are troubled and said simply – Dis ·eased.

Ignorance is the root cause of our condition, as we have now become incubators for ignorance, bound by its infectious, communicative, destructive memology. This aphorism is not an indictment but rather an enlightenment. We can improve the condition of our communities.

We have identified the enemy. To know the enemy is to begin to conquer it - Ignorance. Our bodies were shackled and incarcerated by unjust men of ill repute: they themselves unconscious contradictions or worse, conscious contradictions (liars) of what they espoused.

Their tools used for incarceration was unjust law, made and delivered by non-virtuous men. Ironically, the weaponry for perpetual incarceration is the same tool for liberation – our minds.

And the spirit of the law that non-virtuous men use is subordinate and subjected to the Law of The Spirit that remain inside every man or woman. It is The Light Source for abundant energy. It is there for each of our destinies to be made manifest. It must be AWAKENED!

We have now identified the enemies, their tools, and their jails. We have jarred the door and it is cracked open. The current condition of our of our minds presently keep us enslaved. We will renew and illuminate our minds. Dr. A.R. Bernard of Rochester, New York once quoted in Memphis - "Spiritual renewal is always followed by economic revitalization." That was his way of say, seek ye first the kingdom of God and His Righteous and all these things will be added unto you. - Matthew 6:33

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I realize how unreal this must sound to most people. Just honestly ask yourself if you’ve been getting what you’ve been desiring for your life and those you love? Why not add to your arsenal of understanding by becoming an Advocate for Radical ChangeS. It can be a beautifully mysterious and joyful journey.

Do not get in a hurry. You never arrive. You only journey. Allow it and let us begin –
gman

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Enemies of The Ununited State

The article previously shared was Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott! Thanks for the update. I read the Citgo email and further researched it to find that Congress was discussing this matter in February 2006.

Though I didn't know Citgo was the distribution arm for Venezulan oil, I'm not surprised by it. I am aware of Chavez of Venezula and his presidency (dictatorship). One of the first things tyrants do when they take over a country is to nationalize the resourses. His relationships with Fidel Castro as well as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinemad is well documented. Their idealogies, though different, are of basic fundamentalism morphed with facism to become their synthesis of the day in this connected world we live in. Yes they are ememies of democracy, avowed to destroy us. We are right to be aware of our enemies and the means of financing their causes. But we should not fear them or their avowed actions. Fear allows ignorance to rule.

A more succinct threat to our democracy and way of life is the current "trodding on our US Constitution" by our current Administration in the Whitehouse. President Bush is being led by tyranist of their own making and for their own greedy purposes, under the guises of national security. And the American people are buying it because they are allowing the ignorance of fear to rule. This administration is not the first to make this intrusion, nor will they be the last. The intrusions are not limited to Party affiliation. But when they are sanctioned by The Party, then that Party must be held accountable.

I suggest, we as citizens should become more active in the elective process and become more knowledgeable of the freedoms we hold sacred. We must exercise our voting rights to send a message of our dissatisfaction with the direction our country is being led by its elected officials. We are TRUE PATRIOTS when we call to action our citizens. AWAKEN NOW! Tennessee Waltz? Let's have a Washington Waltz! Should we fail to act to abate the constitutional erosion taking place, "the levies will surely break" and we will become wards of the morass called "the ununited state of america." Therein will our enemies have been allowed to win, not through our physical demise but through the death of our freedoms and ideology of The American Way - FREE THINKING.

Liberty is the target of our enemies, whether they are outside our borders or inside them. Truly, "barbarians are already inside the gates. Let's get them out, whether they call themselves Republicans, Democrats, conservative, liberal, left or right. We The People are the guardians of Liberty. The true lynchpin to our demise will surely be the ambivalent attitudes of our citizenry.

Please pardon the intrusion of this email by becoming a resounding voice of democracy for ourselves and our children's future. If you are so inspirted, share this email with others without alteration or, "just ruminating it will elevate your own consciousness by avoiding ossification."

We can have a world where as Colin Powell said to President Reagan in a national security presidential briefing, "the world is quiet today, Mr. President."

gman

“Democracies depend more on moral ideas than non-democratic societies do, because they depend on the free choices of their citizens. For their very survival, they must shape ordinary people into an extraordinary moral force.” - Irving Kristol