http://www.notbored.org/goldstein.htmlThe other side of
1984. This represents what Orwell's true thoughts where, and it is interesting to read.
So, read it (its about 10 pages) and discuss it here!
Hey, it's the complete thing!
But wasn't it called The Theory of Oligarchal Collectivism?
I thought it had a different name, but whatever.
yeah, I read this before in 1984. It's a very very insightful political analysis, and yet the irony that it seems to point out to me is, we need it. What would we do without it? We would need the creators of govnernments to tell us how we did it before them, but they are unknown and dead. All we have known is subjection to an external power who is greater than us and everything we could ever accomplish. We are given the illusion we contribute to that through things like representative democracy and we're given the illusion that the government is made up of us because they too are subject to a higher power (one's respective gods). Which is what it pointed out... food for thought that one will vomit from I suppose
Somtimes I think that that illision is more important to people than the actuality of a real, working government. Appearing to be working or right is more important to the masses of people than actually working, or being in the right.
