On Thursday 24 November 2005 10:11, marc wrote: >Gene Heskett said... > >> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 14:35, marc wrote: >> >Katipo said... >> > >> >> The evolutionary path of the corporate politician. >> >> And nobody permitted to climb to any 'higher level', within the >> >> organisation, until the ethical base of the individual has been >> >> appropriately compromised. >> >> >> >> History is full of examples of nations attempting to change >> >> nations, families attempting to change families, and individuals >> >> attempting to bring about change in individuals, when the only way >> >> change can be brought about in the external environment, is by way >> >> of change within the individual. >> >> >> >> What happens when the individual no longer exists? >> >> >> >> Because, in the future, existence without the organisation is >> >> going to become increasingly difficult. >> >> The 'organisation' is extending its boundaries to match >> >> nationalistic ones, and the new ethic will be taught from birth. >> > >> >It's a brave new world ;-) >> >> Isn't this the scenario George Orwell tried to warn us about 21 years >> ago? Sure bears an amazing resemblance. > >'1984' was published in 1949. You'd have thought he'd feel a bit more >positive after WWII, but I guess he wasn't to be fooled. 'Brave new >world' was published in 1932.
1984 I read as a teenager, BNW was 2 years before I was born, so I guess I was never properly introduced to that one, although I'm sure my alky uncle who introed me to sci-fi way back then must have had a copy on his bookshelf. I gobbled up the Doc Smith stuff as soon as I got past McGuffies Readers. Huh? Oh, yeah, doddering old fart, thats me. >And the insatiable power-junkies in our employ, er, politicos. like to >think that they're *so* "modern", "progressive" and continually "moving >forward" :-o Yeah, but somehow the fact that they ARE in our employ seems to be lost on most of them... > >Personally, I prefer BNW's irony to 1984's. 1984 is geared toward the >state taking control by force, whereas BNW has folk being far more >compliant. Chillingly accurate. Probably not for you if you bought an >iPod, though ;-) No sorry, haven't yet, I'm not that much of a background noise junkie. >I sometimes think that the world I live in is Huxleys', whereas the >world I perceive through the media is Orwell's. Right on. Darnit. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]