THOUGHT POLICE
The level of state surveillance in the world’s second-largest economy is well known. So is the Communist Party’s ability to control the narrative through its state-owned news media, state-censored social media, state-published textbooks and army of information censors.
We have seen that again this week during the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Truth has been absent in what the journalist Louisa Lim called The People’s Republic of Amnesia.
Memories of Tiananmen Square
But there’s a weird confluence of history going on here. That’s because this week was not just the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.
It was the anniversary of the novel 1984.
“He himself never lived in a totalitarian society,” Dr Feng said of the English writer George Orwell, whose most famous novel, 1984, was published 70 years ago this weekend.
“I lived in that society. I have to say that Orwell was an absolute genius. He got everything right.”
In my monkey opinion, so did your most precious book of supernatural genius – the Bible.
Isaiah 5:20-21 King James Version (KJV)
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
The Watchful Chimp
2 thoughts on “THOUGHT POLICE”
Perhaps George wrote 1984 with an open Bible next to his portable Remington 5? What brilliance – now we are back in his world in real-time and that sound you hear is the snoring of a public sound asleep. We are now assailed by thousands of watching and listening devices and no one seems to care? George could well be spinning in his grave and Joseph Goebbels wringing his hands in despair and envy?
At ease!
Basil Mainwaring [Capt. Ret]
Aye aye Captain! Thanks for your insightful comments! Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
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