One must believe the evidence of one's own senses!

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Wherein I point out the emperor has not clothes, that all the honest politicians in the world will fit on the head of a pin, the educational system of the United States has succeeded in dumbing down it's electorate, and the coming administration must depend on setting up a schizophrenic system of thought in order to succeed.

Thus...

"Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth. The friends of totalitarianism in this country usually tend to argue that since absolute truth is not attainable, a big lie is no worse than a little lie ... It is pointed out that all historical records are biased and inaccurate, or on the other hand, that modern physics has proven that what seems to us the real world is an illusion, so that to believe in the evidence of one's senses is simply vulgar philistinism. A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set up a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist ." - George Orwell

In the current hearings for appointments to the upcoming Obama administration one might certainly keep in mind the above quote. Along with the President elect, we are being asked to accept appointees who have skipped along the fringes of breaking the law as well as those who actually did. The proposed appointee for Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner being just the most recent tarnished character.

Mr Geithner breaking the law is being labeled an "honest mistake". Even allowing the extremely thin possibility that he did NOT know he was breaking the law, since when has ignorance of the law become an excuse? Try that out on the patrolman who stops you for speeding on an unfamiliar highway sometime. I'm sure the fact you weren't aware of the speed will result in getting an "honest mistake" pass.

We are being maneuvered into classic "doublethink". From Wikipedia:

"Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs."

Case in point: We are taught that breaking the law is wrong and punishable. Then we are expected to accept that a person who breaks the law is qualified to be our Secretary of the Treasury simply because Barack Obama wishes it so.


We are sleepwalking to a dystopian society ruled by a cult personality.


WAKE UP!

Are you rousing from the "hope and change" trance a bit? Then consider this...

A Personality cult arises when a country's leader or candidate for leadership uses mass media to create, from what seems thin air, a heroic public image. It is done through unquestioning flattery and praise along with the complete suppression of any unflattering facts. Personality cult figures include dictators. And dictators rule dystopias.

In a dystopia, the emphasis is on pressuring it's citizens to conform in terms of the requirement to NOT excel. The government or "state" may force it's society to become ruthlessly egalitarian. Ability and accomplishment is suppressed or stigmatized as forms of inequality. Personal competence in the form of providing for oneself the benefits of everyday living...food, shelter, health care and even social pastimes...is suppressed by the state. Why should one citizen (or should that be comrade?) excel while his brother does not? Dystopia represses the honest intellectual with particular force, because the pseudo-intellectual as well as the non-educated is willing to accept it, while the honest intellectual is punished by presenting the whole truth, not just that which flatters.

Left to the devices of the radical left, the green pseudo-scientists and the self-flagellating guilt ridden recipients of capitalistic gain (as if that's a bad thing) we will soon find ourselves in a world that spurns innovation and excellence. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged should be required reading for every high school senior, yet in the current political climate what teacher would dare? This formidable book very succinctly exposes the mantra's of "equality of opportunity" and "public good" as justifications for opposing free market capitalism and competition.