The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance... The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and and its object is not the victory versus Eurasia (ISIS) or East Asia (Al Qaeda), but to keep the very structure of society intact." That is quote by George Orwell written in 1949 in his masterpiece "1984" I added ISIS and Al Qaeda in there just to show how dead on his book was back then about what the future held. Think about it. Do you ever really think the government is going to give up on "the war on terror"? I mean it's perfect for them. Because they are not fighting an enemy from a particular country, they can bomb and kill people where ever they like! And the sad part is that they can do this, then mention that they killed so and so a leader of the bad guys. And we are all supposed to cheer...as if we knew exactly who they were talking about! Most people have no real clue as to who we are fighting...only that they are bad people and they want to kill us. How do we know this? Because the government tells us so, of course. And the sad part is that they are probably right. There are people out there who want to kill us. Just like there are people in our own country who want to make the Middle East into a gigantic parking lot. The poor and uneducated like to blame people in far off lands for their troubles. And our government wants to perpetuate this type of thinking. As I said in my last post, I think it is strange that "our enemies" choose targets that are poised to piss off our general population and bring the might of our military down on them. What did they really gain by killing a bunch of civilians that have nothing to do with them? Why did they not go after the heads of some of our major corporations that do the deals that change their way of life? Or our politicians who enact our foreign policy that seems to enrage them so much? Attacking those types of targets would likely not enrage our populous and have them signing up to go kill people in foreign lands. It might scare the pants off of the elites of our country and have them clamoring for war even more than they do now, but it's likely the regular Joe Six-pack out there wouldn't be going to the recruiting station to get revenge for some CEO. So who benefits from the targets that are chosen? Did Al Qaeda benefit after we sent thousands of troops over there to kill them? Or did our government and some large corporations benefit? Follow the money folks. Who benefited from the patriotic fervor that shot across the United States? Did the shareholders of the large aerospace and defense companies benefit? I think so. Did our military and political leaders benefit in anyway? I think the answer there might also be a big yes. Were all of these people involved? No. Did terrorists take down the twin towers? Yes. I am just not certain it was the terrorists we so quickly went out to kill. Think about our world people. Think about your cell phone and our computers. Think about our politicians and our media. Isn't it amazing that a man in 1949 could write a story about a twisted future and have it be uncannily accurate...even if he was off by a couple of decades! I'll leave off with one more George Orwell quote for you to think about. Leave a comment after you have thought about it and let me know what you think. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength" Okay, one more. I promise, no more George Orwell quotes or conspiracy-type posts...at least for a while anyway! "In a time of universal deceit
telling the truth is a revolutionary act!"
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