Grzegorz Ochman
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People talk about War in Ukraine and the economic crisis. I don’t really care about this stuff. I have watched this SHIT for almost 20 years. It’s not the first war or economic crisis I have seen, for so many years people have been killed by the hand of the West or on orders from the West. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria almost 10 years of suffering Yemenis. Watching all this and knowing the truth makes you indifferent to human suffering. So I don’t really care about Ukrainians why should I? Because they are killed by Russian who are our enemies? Yemenis have suffered worse for almost 10 years by the hand of our allies who are using our weapons and I should not care, know or think about it. So why should I care about dying Ukrainians if I would be so naïve I could say because they are white. In truth the West doesn’t care if they are killing white of black or whoever and we should care about Ukrainians not because they are white but because they are victims of our enemies so they are worthy victims while Yemenis who are killed by our allies are not worthy victims. This economic crisis is also not the first crisis I have seen.
All this does not scare me, it was nothing new to me and that’s not why I have started posting my articles. The really scary thing is censorship. First with sickness now over the war in the Ukraine and fighting Russian propaganda. AND WHO THE FUCK WILL FIGHT AGAIN OUR WESTERN PROPAGANDA? But Western media doesn’t lie, we are good guys after all, we only spread democracy, freedom, wealth, truth and justice. So it’s not necessary to fight Western propaganda because there is no such thing. Most people actually believe it and do not understand that they live in an empire that oppressed the whole world.
I wrote before I found out the truth during the second war in Iraq when I was watching mainstream media coverage in the West and I saw a lot of lies and bullshit. So I wanted to watch what the other side says because like I said before everyone lies so you can only find truth by filtering the truth out of the lies of both sides. I watched Al-jazzera online and also YouTube. What scared me and why I started posting is because of things like sick censorship, silencing of the Biden laptop story and banning RT on YouTube. Today, kids who are like me can have problems finding the truth. Today RT is the equivalent of Al-jazeera in my time. Al-jazzera’s coverage helped me see the truth of what really is going on. Today RT is banned on Youtube. Kids should not be allowed to see the other side, because after all, the West are good guys who don’t lie so why even listen to the other side – am I right? Banning the Biden laptop story and banning RT on YouTube is something new and something that is really scary and no one is talking about it!!!
I am not scared of war or economic crisis. What I am scared of is the end of history and the final revolution which Huxley spoke about.
We live in Huxley’s brave new world where we are conditioned to love our servitude and truth is hidden from us in a sea of irrelevance (irrelevant information/entertainment). But that was not enough for them; they needed more total control so we are now entering Orwell’s 1984 and people are not only protesting but cheering for the loss of their freedoms. Creator of behavioral science J B Waston said: That fear, not love, is the driving force in our society. We are constantly conditioned to fear something: first the cold war, then Islamic terrorists, then sickness, now Russia and Putin. To fight that great danger that we fear so much we need to be protected from bad ideas. From misinformation we are too stupid to decide what is true so we need to be protected from bad thoughts and ideas. People not only don’t protest it they cheer for it. Everyone thinks my neighbor is so stupid he believes medical lies or Russian trolls so we need to stop misinformation. But no one thinks that the real question they need to ask themselves is: My stupid neighbor believes misinformation so should I give up my own right to think, to make decisions, to have freedom of thought just to stop him from having bad ideas? We were conditioned in such a way people don’t ask themselves that. They cheer yes my master controls what I think by controlling what I know so I can be protected from evil thoughts and ideas (misinformation). Anyone who read 1984 knows it sounds Orwellian. Everyone thinks about this question in the context of one’s stupid neighbor who has a different view regardless if he is right or left wing. No-one thinks that to stop misinformation is to stop people who think differently than you. You need to give someone the right to decide what you know, so what you think. Our actions are the effect of our thoughts so if they control our thoughts they control our actions. Before we lived in Huxley’s brave new world, where truth was hidden you could find it if you spent time to look while mainstream sources of information feed you propaganda. But that was not enough; the powers that be wanted full control. Since truth still existed there was still a chance for freedom. So now they have conditioned us to give up our freedom fully and by fully giving up our freedom of thought completely through censorship. They conditioned us to such a degree just like Huxley and the rest predicted and we not only are not protesting we are cheering the removal of our freedom of thought. Just like medical misinformation and Putin trolls were removed from the internet so soon. So called bad history books will be removed. Before we were fed lies and propaganda and most people believe it because they don’t have time to look for the truth. But now they want to make it so even if you would like to know the truth, the truth will not exist. Like in 1984 bad stories it will be burned and new ones will be written.
Truth will not matter if it does not exist.
“In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time. The completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by methodical conditioning, the servitude made acceptable by regular doses of chemically induced happiness, the orthodoxies drummed in by nightly courses of sleep-teaching — these things were coming all right, but not in my time, not even in the time of my grandchildren…Twenty-seven years later, in this third quarter of the twentieth century A.D., and long before the end of the first century A.F., I feel a good deal less optimistic than I did when I was writing Brave New World. The prophecies made in 1931 are coming true much sooner than I thought they would… The nightmare of total organization…has emerged from the safe, remote future and is now awaiting us, just around the next corner.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
“Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships – an age in which freedom of thought will be at first a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is going to be stamped out of existence.” – George Orwell, Inside the Whale
“The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one: don’t let it happen. It depends on you.” -George Orwell
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”-Aldous Huxley
“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma”— Aldous Huxley (Island)
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
“The only difference between you and the children in the brave new world who are conditioned to hate flowers and beautiful things and books in that way is that your conditioning is happening while you’re wide awake or are you? Is the current lifestyle of the consumer in fact a kind of waking dream? What Huxley understands only too well is conditions under what we might call late capitalism, in other words the kind of neoliberal capitalist societies we live in now. What Huxley understood only too well was that in an economy that is defined by consumption and advertising… Read more »
Orwell was an elitist liberal anti-populist snob who despised working masses. So are “heroes” of his novels.
“We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky
People are just people. We should not care about the faults of people but their ideas. None is perfect because we look for heroes for someone perfect. Personal attacks like the one against Assange are possible. I don’t care who Orwell was as a person but his ideas.
I haven’t found any good ideas in Orwell’s work. There is nothing wrong in principle on sovereign state dealing with subversive elements.
“In reality very little was known about the proles. It was not necessary to know much. So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died,… Read more »
Define “subversive elements” first. Anyone who disagrees with any facet of gov’t policy maybe? That’s precisely the type of broad sweeping language and policy that I’d implement if I was a supervillain bent on world domination, I suppose.
Also not many people know Orwell was a student of Huxley. They exchange notes regarding their novels. But Orwell was just a writer and philosopher. While Huxley was more scientist interested in behavioral science and actual applications of methods of control. Orwell wrote Animal farm and 1984 just before death his most famous works. Question is didn’t he write it before and just was afraid to publish them before he will be dying anyway. That’s what I am pondering.
You write a lot of excellent essays!! Keep up the good work!!
Thank you. I am glad someone understands what I am trying to say.