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April 4, 2010
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -- 1984
Posted by Vanderleun at April 4, 2010 7:07 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Pretty much the situation.
Where, and how, will it end?
Posted by: Irish Cicero at April 4, 2010 8:06 PM
A duck is a duck.
Here, in the future, badly.
Posted by: ahem at April 4, 2010 9:02 PM
I long ago discovered that all of my lefty friends who tried to use Orwell's 1984 as a cudgel in our conversations on Liberty had either not read it or were otherwise almost entirely clueless as to what its contents implied regarding the trajectory of their chosen worldview.
Posted by: monkeyfan at April 5, 2010 2:10 PM