Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "1984 vs Brave New World - How Freedom Dies" video.

  1. In the U.S. politics has become reality-TV. People don't want solutions, they want to be entertained. People don't want to unite, they want to be in one camp or the other. People don't want to honor God, they want to worship idols. Huxley is spot-on in that regard. I have often commented that while we were keeping any eye out for 1984 the powers-that-be slipped a Brave New World in on us. COVID was a test run. People not only submitted, they clamored for more rules, punishments for people who failed to conform. and have adjusted to a new reality where working from home is quickly becoming the norm in a lot of industries. This isolation makes it easier to control people, and that is what it is always about, power and control. I can see where Huxley's vision slides into Orwell's in an almost seamless manner. If you were to poll the entire country, "I just want to be left alone" would be the chart topper of any list of desirable circumstances it appeared on. When you just want to be left alone you are in a perfect position for just the opposite to befall you. When the-powers-that-be can convince you that everything, including basic truths like male and female are up for grabs you are already violating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first tenant of resisting totalitarianism: “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Orwell may have tried to warn the people of Britain that a Stalin-like leader could emerge anywhere but he and his fellow-travelers were the useful idiots Lenin declared essential to the ultimate success of communism. Well-intentioned liberals lent their name and prestige to the movement and even ignored the cognitive dissonance necessary to accept the obvious contradictions of most leftist positions. Some did it out of naivete, others did it out of self-interest, but the genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back in now. We are now producing a generation that believes obvious false-hoods and values collectivism over individual freedom. The term democratic socialism is just another lie put forth by a group who lie so much they now fail to see the distinction between what is true and what is false. In other words, like all pathological liars, they buy their own bullshit. Men are becoming weaker and more passive, women are given higher positions in a hierarchy that is becoming more matriarchal every day. I'm not a chauvinist, but such a system is not sustainable. Call me names but men have an instinct to lead and protect. Those instincts are now called toxic. Men aren't looking for wives, women aren't looking for husbands, but children are looking for parents. When the traditional family doesn't provide them, the state will. And when the state does, you have given your children over to demonic forces. Something's gonna give at some point. The center can't hold because there isn't much of it left. People are choosing sides, and where that leads is always unpleasant. Get right with God. That's the best advice this old coot can give anyone.
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