The Top 40

"George Orwell, in a moment of despair, predicted a future where the bad guys would permanently rule the roost. "

Imagine if some researcher makes a medical breakthrough whereby the human body can last in perpetuity.

Immortality.

Now, imagine immortality for a Stalin or a Mao or Kim Il-sung. Then truly would it be a boot stamping of an human face forever.

For the individual, the Sociopath is stronger than those of us who are law abiding, because the toolset is much bigger. If the sociopath is not an idiot, then he can keep the 'games' going... forever and no one would ever sort out how to end it because if they did figure it out, the underling would then be dead.

Thank GOD we only live about a hundred years - and are NOT immortal - as the possibility of existence becoming a living hell is not just possible, but certain.

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"Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”"

~Genesis 6:3

Orwell never said the same foot was going to be in that boot for ever.

I tend to agree with Orwell.

"Orwell never said the same foot was going to be in that boot for ever."

Troo.

For a sociopath to maintain his hold upon the people, he needs to keep as much of his power hidden. Thus when there is a 'changing of the guard', the new tyrant needs to start at a much weakened state, nor will he probably be the equal of the earlier one as the power types do not like rivals.

Immortality (hypothetically) would ensure that there will never be a 'changing of the guard' adnd so the hidden 'rackets' can be maintained ... forever.

Saddam Hussein, Joseph Stalin, & Kim Il-Sung are all at hte top of the class in regards to Sociopathy and nobody was able to dethrone them as long as they lived (or was not conquered - like Saddam. Heck... even after losing a major part of his power in the first Iraqi, American War, Saddam was still able to hold onto power - such was his prowess at his occupation of being a tyrant).

Seldom do two ages have the same fashion in their pretexts and the same modes of mischief. Wickedness is a little more inventive. Whilst you are discussing fashion, the fashion is gone by. The very same vice assumes a new body. The spirit transmigrates; and, far from losing its principle of life by the change of its appearance, it is renovated in its new organs with a fresh vigor of a juvenile activity. It walks abroad, it continues its ravages, whilst you are gibbeting the carcase, or demolishing the tomb. You are terrifying yourselves with ghosts and apparitions, whilst your house is the haunt of robbers. Under colour of abhorring the ill principles of antiquated parties, they are authorizing and feeding the same odious vices in different factions, and perhaps in worse--
Burke

The boot is terrible.

But I tend to think that it is/will be more like Huxley described in Brave New World.

Read it, or re-read it. That's exactly the world that the technocrats are building for us. At least here, back in the USA.

The boot will still be found in the rest of the world, until they catch up.

Huxley and Orwell are two sides of the same coin. When the carrot fails bring out the stick.

Even before the assassinations, Lenin was sending telegrams "to introduce mass terror" in Nizhny Novgorod in response to a suspected civilian uprising there, and "crush" landowners in Penza who protested, sometimes violently, to requisition of their grain by military detachments:

"Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity ... You must make example of these people.
(1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers.
(2) Publish their names.
(3) Seize all their grain.
(4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram.
Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...

Yours, Lenin.
P.S. Find tougher people."

But history proves that Orwell’s future never happens.

History proves jack shit; it is written by the winners. It can only dubiously record the past. It has not nor ever will predict the future.

OK, a trick question:
Do you want the truth or a happy ending?

North Korea proves Orwell wrong. That place could not exist without subsidies*. When the subsidies end - they will end - it will collapse into warlordism. And perhaps fifty years after that it will reach somewhere resembling the peoples around it.

2+2=5

Start designing a tug boat with that and come back an tell me how good everything went.

*it is the anti-Disney World