See? I told you we’d make this a recurring feature.
Today’s Hollywood genius is Tim Robbins, who charged earlier today that America is morphing into Airstrip One. Plugging his new stage rendition of Orwell’s 1984, Robbins:
…pointed out similarities between current US policies on terrorism and the authoritarian society described by Orwell .
“Unfortunately, the book and the play is more relevant now than it ever has been,” he said. “(It) talks about continuous warfare as a means to control the Western economy, and as a way to control rebel elements within society through the use of fear, constant fear.”
“In my country we seem to be sanctioning renditioning of innocent people without trial … put them in jail without telling anyone … and torture them out of suspicion of what we think they might do,” Robbins said.
No, we aren’t. I know you’re an actor and all Robbins, but good god can we tone down the dramatics a bit?
And I’m sorry, perhaps a more economic savy reader could explain to me how you can whine about the high cost of the Iraq war in one breath, then claim that it is “a means to control the western economy” in the next?
Actually, do me a favor and read this again:
[1984] talks about continuous warfare as a means to control the Western economy
Can somebody please tell me what the hell that means?
Can somebody please tell me what the hell that means?
It was one of the ways in which the Party maintained control. However, there’s a point in the book where, for example, the Party decides they’ve been at war with a different superstate and erase all history of being at war with the first one.
People who compare the current US to 1984 can *always* find, at any given time, a few superficial similarities just as you can always find a few superficial similarities between the US and Nazi Germany.
Orwell’s superstate (I think there were three of them) would have looked a lot like modern day North Korea, just a lot bigger. Same miserable poverty, same isolation and same cult of personality, just a matter of scale.
It’s funny how people strain to draw these tenuous, fantastical similarities between today’s government and fictional distopian governments (such as 1984 or V for Vendetta’s Britain). And yet pretty much the entirety of the Arab/Islamic world lives in just such a world. Down to the government writing the textbooks. Down to the “Committee for the Propogation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice” (if that isn’t Orwellian as hell then nothing is). Down to the unending wars against the permanent enemies (Israel and the US).
Anyway, in 1984 continuous war was used as a means to create permanent shortages, which thus justified elevated powers of the state to control the economy (using rationing, for example). ‘course, I haven’t noticed many shortages in the supermarkets due to the WoT.
Also, when did “renditioning” become a word? Is that some sort of Tim Robbins linguistic strategery?
Robbins is an actor, and lives in a fantasy world. I think everything is an act to these people after a while.
In 1984 it was essential for the party to create work. The economy was managed, and thus people slaved away building large battleships and other huge war vehicles. To justify the continuous military expendatures and to cover for the constant rationing and supply shortages, the party claimed that they were at war with “Oceana”.
How this ties in with the US, which currently has a booming economy and who’s populace is often accused of not suffering enough, I don’t know. The only orwellian activity going on today is the standard leftist doublethink.
OK, someone clue me in here …. is “brilliance” spelled incorrectly in the post title on purpose (also in the other linked post) as part of some inside joke?
Weebs, good catch…thanks. Double typo.
Typed in websters.com to check the exact definition, and came up with “webstes.com”
Gotta stop blogging early in the morning and late at night, killing me.
To amplify what another responder said about Robbins being an actor living in a fantasy world.
This world is called the world of the “Emotional Truth” I define the “emotional truth” as the way liberals describe how things should have been. You see it in lots of movies that replace truth with how some liberal wanted some situation to be (literary license on steroids).
The term was accidentally blurted by a director who was describing a boxing movie that totally avoided truth to champion what she wanted to happen.
Anyone can lie. What is amazing is how defensive and loud liberals become when challenged based on fact. It is a trauma similar to the one the “big media” is going through in being confronted by the “Army of Davids”.
Their power is fading so they pump up the volume.
Timmie Robbins? Is he worth a comment? Just another name that I will look for as I boycott Idiots in films.
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I’ve not read 1984. Tedious, leftwinger literature has no draw for me.
It looks to me like he is yet another radlib douchepump spouting out his piehole.
Yawn.
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