Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Orwell was not prescient, 1984 was already at work in 1948. People make the mistake of thing that everyone in his story was controlled like Winston when it was only "the party" being controlled in such a fashion and the great unwashed massed being controlled by folks like Winston. The Party once controlled and properly indoctrinated was the tool for controlling the masses.

Now for a bit of history. Various people have always made a "living" out of controlling others. Hang with me a minute and I think I can express Orwell's line of reasoning. Here is a rough progression of examples:

It started with hunter/gatherers running weaker people of the prime land (very crude control)

Then agricultural developed and these people were raided and subjugated by "barbarians" (crude control)

These barbarians settled down and set up a protection racket -called feudalism (land control). In this example we see people being controlled by their need to derive a living from the land. So at this level we see land taxes (serfdom) being the means of making a living from the masses. Interestingly enough, even after the Renaissance and the Reformation this type of control remained prevalent.

The Industrial Revolution broke the back of the land control techniques, people could make a living doing by moving into the city. Did this mean that control went away? Far from it. What we see is a new form (energy/economic control). People need to pay to play. Fuel for their house, gas their car...so on and so forth.

What is the next logical step in this progression? As technology is released to make internal combustion engines obsolete and folks no longer need to "make bricks for Pharaoh" in order to heat their homes? We can either regress to land control (and yes this is taking place), but now more than ever what people THINK must be controlled. Now we've caught up to Orwell.

We're on the brink of the information control age. We can see it in full swing in China, we see the self-censoring taking place in Europe and we are clearly well down that path as a nation in the US. My best answer is to get ready, find out what objective truth is and hold on for the ride. Networking and education (carefully scrutinizing our sources) need to be our new means of obtaining new information. Most of all, let others know what is going on. We know what is going to happen next (just like Orwell did) so it lends us a great deal of credibility.

Anyway, this is getting pretty long so later all.

Quit being ostriches. There must be millions of people now reading blogs like this one. It is up to everyone of us that can see to start explaining to the sheeple what the hell is going on. Will it be easy nope not when you have to compete with Britany and Paris et al. If those of us that get it influence a few people to start thinking about what is going on and get a few zealots to put some energy into it, who knows, in a few years maybe the majority will awaken.

The note says: "If you have any solutions, post them below."
Well, it's pretty simple, but probably not going to happen: Ban all advertising outside of 200 miles of where products are sourced, and get rid of the income tax laws to be replaced with consumption taxes for all government services.
We need big brother to protect the stuff we buy, so big brother should be paid for at the POP (point of purchase). Media is corrupt because it is enslaved to its advertisers, who get to deduct the expense of advertising from their income, AND they get to use any form of coercion they can think of, telling the public about 'free choice'. Meanwhile, they tell their clients on Madison Avenue that they can sell dog shit to cats if given enough money.
We have a screwed up country because we bought it instead of building it ourselves. Now the money is running out with the oil, so the changes that are coming may be by our purposeful guidance or by chaotic behavior. Understanding how we got here doesn't seem to be enough to change where we are going.
The current economic actions of our leaders are EXACTLY the same things they did in 1929: prop up the stock market long enough for the fat cats to get out of it.
Maybe people will realize that they don't need most of the energy and crap that we are using right now when it falls apart and they start burning it up to stay warm.
"Horse: it's what's for dinner." -I don't think Sam Elliot will be voicing that one.