Friday, 31 July 2009
Amazon Kindle Fiasco Underscores the Larger Problem
Everybody else weighed in on the Amazon Kindle dustup but all of them failed to note the irony that the books which were deleted, '1984' and 'Animal Farm' both by George Orwell, speak of the very dystopian things we see happening here now in the United States. It should come as no surprise then that the world's largest retailor of books, run by Amazon CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos, just happens to be all cozy with the Big Bro in the White House.
I'm certain that this would have nothing whatsoever to do with Amazon pulling the two books that describe in great detail exactly what we can expect from Obama and his squirrelly commy loving henchmen.
'1984' has become famous for its portrayal of pervasive government surveillance and control, and government's increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual. It's also were we get many of its terms and concepts, such as "Big Brother", "doublethink", and "Newspeak" that have entered the popular vernacular of those that would fight big oppressive government. The word "Orwellian" itself has come to refer to anything reminiscent of the book's fictional regime.
'Animal Farm' reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell was highly critical of Stalin and his ideas and tactics. The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia destroy any possibility of a Utopia. While this novel portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if smooth transition to a people's government isn't satisfied. The events and characters in Animal Farm satirise Communism ( "Animalism" ), authoritarian government and human gullibility generally; of the characters in the book, Snowball is seen as Leon Trotsky and the head pig, Napoleon, is Stalin.
Sound familiar? It should, we are living in the midst of a socialist/communist revolution here in America, one that has afflicted our precious brothers and sisters in South America. No wonder Obama's buddy Bezos didn't want the sheeple reading these books, because in doing so they would see the path of bloodshed, socialism and depotism Obama has in store for us. This is none other than U.S. Government influenced censorship of books meant to enlighten people to the horrors of socialism and communism.
It's always a source of amusement to me as that all these billionaires support socialist/communist movements, they really must not realize how dangerous such a system is to them. I believe Orwell really hit it on the head when he spoke of human gullibility, I can think of 60 million people right off the top of my head... they all voted for Big Brother in the White House.
As always, keep the change...
