WAR

  Από την προσωπική σελίδα του φίλου από τις ΗΠΑ στο fb. Mεταφέρουμε την ανάρτηση όπως 'ανέβηκε'- μια ερμηνεία του πολέμου από τονChris Hedges (συγγραφέα και δημοσιογράφο των New York Times μεταξύ άλλων και βραβευμένου με Pulitzer) και δυο αποσππάσματα από το 1984 του George Orwell, στη  μητρική τους γλώσσα.


   "Permanent war is the most effective mechanism used by the power elite to stifle reform and muzzle dissent. A state of war demands greater secrecy, constant vigilance and suspicion. It generates distrust and fear, especially in culture and art, often reducing it to silence or nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media. It wrecks the economy. It nullifies public opinion. And it forces liberal institutions to sacrifice their beliefs for a holy crusade, a kind of surrogate religion, whether it is against the Hun, the Bolshevik, the fascist, the communist, or the Islamic terrorist."
                                                                                                                    -Chris Hedges

   "Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs—all had to be rectified at lightning speed."                                                                                          
                                                                                                                   --George Orwell, 1984

   "There was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse. ‘We are the dead,’ he said."
                                                                                                                  --George Orwell, 1984

                                                                      (by Jerry Thomas, Rocky Mountains, USA)