What follows NOW is of great interest to those who love to declare anything that displeases them -- or that does not fit in their world outlook or lifestyle -- as "obsolete."
In my article, I explained: "This is how language is being used to manipulate and indoctrinate the masses, and why words should not think for us, for Bolivarian revolutionaries. They are just miserable tools of thought. We have to think ourselves, and there is no substitute for real, true thought."
The fascist spokesman, the ideologue of "Big Brother," O'Brien informed Winston: "We're getting the language into its final shape -- the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we've finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again.We're destroying words -- scores of them, hundreds of them, every day."
O'Brien continued: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words (in other words, of thinking), of course, the wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of, as well." For example, words like class struggle, capitalism or Marx should be deleted. Furthermore, Winston is being informed: "Big Brother will never die."
This is exactly the opinion of all staunch believers in the capitalist system, who fervently believe in the current New World Order, in postmodern Globalization; those who believe that "Power," "Labor Power" would never die. But let us allow O'Brien to explain Global Fascist "Power" -- i.e. Global Capital, Globalization -- to Winston: "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power..."
The German Nazis and the Soviet Communists came very close to us in their methods ... but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives ... POWER is NOT a means, it is an END. The object of torture is torture ... the object of power is power!"
This is the newspeak of the current Bush administration ... this is what corporate imperialism has in mind for Venezuela.
O'Brien, the Party member, explains the "world of fear and treachery," of Corporate Capitalism of the 21st Century to Winston: "A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow NOT less but MORE merciless, as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. In our world, there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy."
Finally, when Winston claims to be a "man," a human being, O'Brien corrects him: "If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct -- we are the inheritors. Do you understand, that you are ALONE? You are outside history, you are non-existent!"
This is what world imperialism has in mind: the total annihilation of the human species as we have known it till now, and to replace it with "homo technologicus terroristus," with totally controlled, heartless robots and soul-less chips, with Pavlov dogs having a human interface.
In total capitulation, finally Winston asks: "Tell me, how soon will they shoot me?" Cynically, O'Brien answers: "Don't give up hope ... in the end, we shall shoot you."
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