Saturday, September 20, 2014

society, as presently organized, needs continuous war

"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they need not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare."
 George Orwell, 1949, from "1984"

The dude was brilliant, eh?  I sometimes wish he was wrong about something in 1984 but he nailed what is unfolding in the world.  Continuous warfare seems to be the norm these days.

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