Posted by
peripheral on Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:10:33 AM
From My Perspective - - -
The Literature Network gives a summary of the George Orwell Book, 1984,
in which the author visualizes a new and different world. “1984 is set
in a world beyond our imagining…1984 is set in Oceania, which includes
the United Kingdom, where the story is set, known as Airstrip One.
Winston Smith is a middle-aged, unhealthy character…an underling of the
ruling oligarchy, The Party has taken early 20th Century
totalitarianism to new depths, with each person subjected to 24 hour
surveillance, where people's very thoughts are controlled to ensure
purity of the oligarchical system in place. Figurehead of the system is
the omnipresent and omnipotent Big Brother. But Winston believes there
is another way…his job is to change history by changing old newspaper
records to match with the new truth as decided by the Party. ‘He who
controls the past, controls the future’ is a Party slogan to live by
and it gives Winston his job, but Winston cannot see it like that.
Barely old enough to recall a time when things were different, he sets
out to expose the Party for the cynically fraudulent organization that
it is. He is joined by Julia, a beautiful young woman much in contrast
with Winston physically, but equally sickened by the excesses of her
rulers.”
The London Evening Standard reported in 2007, “According to the latest
studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2 million CCTV cameras - one for
every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally.
It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average
of 300 times daily. Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a
chilling mirror image of Orwell's fictional world...On the wall outside
his former residence, flat number 27B, where Orwell lived until his
death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian
author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras,
scanning every move…”
And now the 21st Century, where from the White House Website
(www.whitehouse.gov) the following is a current Big-Brother-Type
solicitation: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance
reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of
life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain
emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all
of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get
an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that
seems fishy, send it to: flag@whitehouse.gov.” The interesting words
used – “…If you get an email or see something on the web about health
insurance reform that seems fishy…” Words that seem “fishy” – you are
to report them to your government. Nothing is said in terms of what
they will do with these reports about your “fishy” email or words. Why
do you think they want to know? Is this a step in the direction of
Big-Brother-Mind-Control? Is it to bring us to a stupor-like response
as indicated in the following description from 1984: “Love of Big
Brother - A spontaneous ritual of devotion to Big Brother ("BB") is
illustrated at the end of the "Two Minutes Hate": At this moment the
entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmic chant of
'B-B!...B-B!...B-B!'- over and over again, very slowly, with a long
pause between the first 'B' and the second - a heavy murmur-sound,
somehow curiously savage, in the background of which one seemed to hear
the stamps 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…”
The path to demise and perishing is stated in II Thessalonians 2:7-11,
“For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work…And then the
lawless one will be revealed…The coming of the lawless one will be in
accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit
miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives
those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the
truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful
delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be
condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in
wickedness.” We are stampeding toward a godless culture and a certain
destruction. Many choose to avoid this truth and do so to their own
peril. Don’t you be one of them! Consider these things with me!