On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 07:55:44 +0200, Slavko <li...@slavino.sk> wrote:
Dňa 24. 6. 2013 2:26 Joel Rees wrote / napísal(a):
!984 and Animal Farm were allegories of the world the authors lived in,
not predictions of some dystopian future.
These two things (author's world and prediction of the future) are not
mutual exclusive ;-)
And it's not true that we're living in Orwells 1984, we didn't in 1984 and
we don't do it today, examples for steps in the other direction, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein_women's_suffrage_referendum,_1984
1. Januar 2011 nobody in Germany is forced to join the armed forces
anymore, I still got a criminal record a little bit after 1984 for not
doing this.
Please don't claim that everything is that evil. I'm fighting for human
rights etc. and I'm an anarchist, but western democracy, with all it's
negative aspects isn't that totalitarian as many people claim.
People who are 30, 40 and more years old might remember that some years
ago gays, women, people with a black skin etc. had a much harder life, see
above, Liechtenstein women's suffrage referendum and than google for
Sharia.
I agree that what the NSA and others do is wrong, bad, evil, but note,
women get allowed to vote and the Islamic nations want to obtrude the
Sharia.
If we criticize on side, we need to take a look at the whole situation. We
don't live in Orwells 1984 and we have people who will force us to follow
their religious crap, they terrorize us.
Don't get me wrong, we should fight for data protection, we should
criticize our governments, they aren't our leaders, they are our
employees. We have much mafis we shouldn't have, bankers, foot mafi etc.,
but we are free to fight against this. Muck in, do social work etc. and
don't claim we are living in dictatorships. We don't life in little
ponyland, but that is something different to a dictatorships.
And if people won't muck in they simply could stop too use latest
Zuckerberg crap etc..
Don't say "the politicians are evil" and then "I won't be
self-responsible, I want politicians who do everything for me".
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