25 May 2022

"The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous."

"The war is not meant to be won.  It is meant to be continuous.  The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor... The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."
From the dialogue of the movie 1984Via for screencap photo.

Reposted from 2011 because it still has relevance.

5 comments:

  1. Reminds me of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Have you read it?

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  2. No. But after reading you comment, I see our library has it, so I've requested it.

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  3. The quote is not "voice over" but Richard Burtons' character O'Brien speaking to John Hurts' Winston Smith

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  4. Things are more like they are now than they've ever been before.

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  5. Smedley Butler was a Major General in the Marine Corps and fought the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution and World War I. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor twice. He wrote a book in 1935 called War is a Racket. President Eisenhower warned us o
    About the military industrial complex in 1961.

    I wish we would learn from our past and I wish our citizenry would participate. That tiny computer in your back pocket can do so much more than check Facebook, the stock market or TikTok.

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