By Chris Hedges
truthdig.com
Two important representations of a future dystopian scenario were "1984" by George Orwell and "Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The debate between those who assumed you were going to meet the corporate totalitarianism, focused on which of them was right. We were, as Orwell wrote, ruled by the repressive state apparatuses for monitoring and security resorted to harsh and violent forms of control? Or, like Huxley imagined, hypnotized by entertainment and shows, charmed and seduced by technology from profligate consumption in order to achieve our own oppression? At the end of both Orwell and Huxley were right. Huxley had previsto il primo stadio della nostra riduzione in schiavitù, Orwell il secondo.
Siamo stati gradualmente espropriati dei nostri diritti da uno stato corporativo che, come previsto da Huxley, ci ha sedotti e manipolati attraverso gratificazione dei sensi, prodotti di massa a buon prezzo, credito sconfinato, teatro della politica e divertimento. Mentre ci distraevamo con intrattenimenti, le regole che prima tenevano sotto controllo il potere predatorio delle corporazioni sono state annientate, le leggi che prima ci tutelavano sono state riscritte e ci siamo ritrovati impoveriti.
Ora che il credito si sta prosciugando, i buoni posti di lavoro per la classe operaia sono finiti per sempre e non ci possiamo più permettere i prodotti mass, we find ourselves transported by "The New World" to "1984". The state, crippled by severe deficits, a war without end and by the unlawful acts of corporations, is sliding toward bankruptcy. It 's time that Big Brother overtaking the world of Huxley. We are moving from a society in which we cleverly manipulated by illusions and links to one in which we are openly controlled.
Orwell warned us compared to a world where books are banned, while Huxley one in which no one reads books. Orwell described a state of permanent war and fear, a culture Huxley diverted from the silly pleasure. Orwell painted a state in which thoughts and conversations are monitored e il dissenso viene brutalmente punito; Huxley uno stato in cui la popolazione concentrata su banalità e gossip, non si preoccupa più di informarsi e di conoscere la verità. Orwell ci vedeva terrorizzati fino alla sottomissione, Huxley sedotti fino alla sottomissione. Ma la visione di Huxley, stiamo scoprendo, non era che il preludio a quella di Orwell. Huxley aveva capito il processo attraverso il quale noi stessi saremmo stati complici della nostra riduzione in schiavitù. Orwell aveva compreso la schiavitù. Ora che il colpo delle corporazioni è fatto, restiamo nudi ed indifesi. Stiamo iniziando a capire, come aveva intuito Karl Marx, che il capitalismo selvaggio e senza regole è una forza brutale e rivoluzionaria che sfrutta gli esseri umani and natural resources to exhaustion or collapse.
"The party has only thirst for power," wrote Orwell in "1984." "We are not interested in the welfare of others, we are interested solely in power. Not wealth, luxury, long life or happiness: only the pure power. What pure power means, I understand now. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, because we know what we're doing. All others, even those that look like us, they were hypocrites and cowards. The German Nazis and Russian Communists are very close to us in ways, but never had the courage to acknowledge the real reasons that caused them to act. They pretended, perhaps even believed that he had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and just around the corner there was a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one gets power with the intention to abandon it. The power is not a means, it is the end. No one establishes a dictatorship to safeguard a revolution, the revolution is made to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The cake is the subject of torture. The object of power is power. "
The political philosopher Sheldon Wolin uses the term" inverted totalitarianism "in his book" Democracy embodied to describe our political system. It 's a term that would make sense for Huxley. Inverted totalitarianism, the sophisticated technologies of corporate control, intimidation and manipulation of mass, which far exceed those used by totalitarian past, are being masked by the glitter, noise and abundance of consumer society. Political participation and civil liberties fell gradually. The corporate state, hiding behind the smokescreen of the public relations industry, entertainment and dell'appariscente materialism of a consumer society, devours us from within. It should not loyalty nor we, nor alla nazione. Banchetta con la nostra carcassa.
Lo stato corporativo non trova la propria espressione in un demagogo o in un leader carismatico. Si definisce per l’anonimato delle sue corporazioni senza volto. Corporazioni, che assoldano rappresentanti attraenti come Barack Obama, controllano la scienza, la tecnologia, l’educazione e la comunicazione di massa. Controllano i messaggi nei film e nella televisione e, così come in “Il mondo nuovo”, usano strumenti di comunicazione per sostenere la tirannia. I nostri sistemi di comunicazione di massa, come scrive Wolin, “bloccano, eliminano tutto ciò che può introdurre qualificazione, ambiguità o dialogo, tutto ciò che rischia di indebolire o mettere in crisi la forza olistica della loro creazione nella sua espressione totale”
Il risultato è un sistema di informazione monocromatico. Celebrità allineate, mascherandosi da giornalisti, esperti e specialisti, identificano i nostri problemi e illustrano pazientemente i parametri. Tutti quelli che esprimono opinioni diverse rispetto ai parametri imposti vengono messi da parte in quanto irrilevanti spostati, estremisti o esponenti della sinistra radicale. Sociologi prescienti, come Ralph Nader e Noam Chomsky, vengono messi a tacere. Le opinioni accettabili vanno da A a B. La cultura, sotto il controllo di questi personaggi allineati, diventa, come Huxley aveva evidenziato, un mondo di allegro conformismo e di sconfinato, e infine fatal optimism. We pledge to buy products that promise to transform our lives, make us more attractive, sure of ourselves or able to collect hits, whereas we are continually deprived of our rights, our money and our influence. All messages we receive, but also from news of the night or talk shows like "Oprah" (lead opinion leaders Oprah Winfrey, who has large following in the U.S. ed), promise a bright future and wonderful. And this, as Wolin points out, is "the same ideology that leads officials to exaggerate corporate profits and hide losses, but always with an expression of solar energy." We were hypnotized, come scrive Wolin “da continui progressi tecnologici” che “ci incoraggiano ad elaborare fantasie di valore individuale, eterna giovinezza, bellezza ottenuta tramite chirurgia, azioni misurate in nanosecondi: una cultura illusoria del controllo e delle sempre crescenti possibilità, i cui esponenti lavorano di fantasia, poiché la vasta maggioranza ha una fervida immaginazione, ma ben scarse conoscenze scientifiche”.
La nostra base produttiva è stata distrutta. Speculatori e imbroglioni hanno saccheggiato le finanze statunitensi e rubato miliardi ai piccoli risparmiatori che avevano accantonato denaro per la pensione o il college. Le libertà civili, compreso l’habeas corpus (Norma giudiziaria del diritto English and North American, for which the arrested person must appear before the court immediately because they decide on the validity of the arrest and the possibility of his release on bail ed) and protect against unauthorized wiretaps, are gone. The basic services, including public education and health, were transferred to the corporations that profit from them. The few who disagree, who refuse to get involved in the up and address corporate, corporate are held up by the establishment as extravagant.
reviews and characters have been cleverly constructed by the corporate state, as influenced by the characters Huxley in "The New World." The protagonist of the book, Bernard Marx, Lenina turns frustration to his girlfriend, asking her:
"Will not you be free, Lenina?"
"I do not understand what you mean. I'm free, free to walk. Everyone is happy today. "
Rise, 'Yes,' Everyone is happy today, 'This we leave to their children. But will not you be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? Your way, for example, not like all the others. "
" I do not understand what you mean, "he repeated.
The facade is crumbling. More and more people realizing that they were used and stolen, we are slipping from "New World" by Huxley in "1984" by Orwell. The public, at some point, will face a very unpleasant reality. The well-paid jobs will not come back. The large deficit in human history means that we are trapped in a system of forced labor compensation for corporate debt that the state will use to eradicate the vestiges of social protection for citizens, including social assistance. The state went from capitalist democracy to neofeudalesimo. And when these truths become evident, the anger will replace the cheerful conformity imposed by the corporate state. The post-industrial wasteland of our portfolios, with 40 million Americans living in poverty and another 10 million in a state of semi-poverty, combined with the lack of credit to save families from mortgages, from banks and repossess from bankruptcy due to health care costs mean that the inverted totalitarianism will not work for long. We live increasingly
OCEAN Orwell's rather than the State of World Huxley. Osama Bin Laden has the role of Emmanuel Goldstein in "1984." Goldstein in the novel is the public face of terror. His evil machinations and the covert action of violence dominate the news of the evening. The image of Goldstein appears daily on our television screens of Oceania as part of the national daily ritual "two minutes hate." And without the intervention of the state, Goldstein, as well as Bin Laden, kill you. All excesses are justified in the titanic struggle against evil personified.
The psychological torture of the soldier Bradley Manning (22 year old American suspected of being responsible for the leak behind the revelations of Wikileaks ed) - who is imprisoned for seven months without being charged with any crime - reflecting the situation of dissident Winston Smith the end of "1984." Manning is being held under maximum security at the Marine base in Quantico, Virginia. He spends 23 hours a day alone. He can not do physical exercises. Can not have no pillows, no sheets on the bed. The army doctors filled with the antidepressants. The rough forms of torture have been replaced by the Gestapo finest Orwellian techniques developed by psychologists hired by governments to reduce plant dissidents as Manning. Destroy souls, as well as bodies. It 's more effective. Now we can all be locked up in the dreaded Room 101 of Orwell to be harmless and condescending. These "special administrative measures" are regularly imposed on our dissidents, including Syed Fahad Hashmi, imprisoned under similar conditions for three years before being processed. These techniques have maimed the psyches of thousands of prisoners in our "black sites" around the world. They are our main form of control in high security prisons where the corporate state underclass fighting our more politically astute - African Americans. Everything is an omen of the passage from Huxley to Orwell.
"You'll never be able to feel human feelings," says his tormentor to Winston Smith in "1984." "It 's all dead inside. You will not be able to love, to experience friendship, love of life, joy, curiosity, courage or integrity. Sarai emptied. We could squeeze them and fill you with ourselves "
The noose is tightening. The era of the fun is about to be replaced by repression. Tens of millions of people have email and telephones controlled by the government. We are monitored and spied on citizens in history. Many of us are incorporated in their daily routine by dozens of security cameras. Our attitudes and habits are recorded on the Internet. Our profiles are generated electronically. Our bodies are searched at the airport and movies from the scanner. Advertisements in public places, registration certificates, posters at bus stops public continually invite us to report suspicious activity. The enemy is everywhere.
who fails to comply with the dictates of the war on terror, a war that, as Orwell noted, is infinite, is brutally silenced. The draconian security measures used to quell the protests during the G20 in Pittsburgh and Toronto were completely disproportionate to the level of activity in the street. But they send a clear message - do not try. The FBI targeted actions against Palestinian activists against the war, in whose home in Minneapolis and Chicago agents raided in late September, are a harbinger of what will happen to anyone who dares to challenge the state's official Newspeak. Agents - our Thought Police - seized telephones, computers and other personal effects. Have been issued subpoenas for 26 people who will appear before the Grand Jury. These subpoenas are based on a federal law that bans "providing material support or resources to those defined as foreign terrorist organizations." The terror, even for those who are not involved in any way, be the blunt instrument with which Big Brother is protecting us from ourselves.
"You begin to see now what kind of world we are creating?" Wrote Orwell. "It 's exactly the opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopia that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear, treachery and torture, in cui si calpesta e si viene calpestati, un mondo che, nel ridefinirsi, non diminuisce, bensì accresce la propria spietatezza.”
Chris Hedges
Fonte: www.truthdig.com
Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011_a_brave_new_dystopia_20101227
27.01.2011
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