Posts Tagged ‘Orwell

06
Nov
15

1984 Now. Part-One.

Controlled Media.

This week has seen the great hype about security in Sinai Egypt, after the unknown tragic loss of a Russian airliner last Saturday with 224 people on board. The British government and some European nations have joined in claiming that it was a bomb and the terminology of evacuation is being used for todays returned charter flights.

Yesterday London and many other cities saw the Million Masked March, were police resources by magic were deployed to control the situation (Rioting). Yet there are not enough police to deal with everyday crime from burgalry to muggings.

The Media is reporting untruths, nearly about everything just as George Orwell said in his 1984 novel and there are many other writers such as Phillip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury who warn that a state can quicly turn from free to Tolitarian in the blink of a unsuspecting eye.

The bible tells us that in the last days it will be very hard for believers to share and live their faith!

2 Corinthians 10:4,  2 Timothy 3:1,  2 Peter 3;3.

08
Aug
14

1984. Part-Three.

Liberalism.

In this series we have looked at what George Orwell was seeing happening in Britain in 1948, Winston Churchill had become comfortable within the new conditions of World War-II (1939-45) and it seemed that those in the establishment were content for this system to continue.

In fact the term cold war could be the answer for them to justify the continuation.

Now we ae going to look at an opposite view of a very open state of human ideas of equality and liberalism and suprise, suprise it is nothing new.

Acts 6:9-15,  Psalm 27:12,  Proverbs 15:18.

25
Jul
14

1984. Part-One.

Police State.

Today there are many countries around the world who maintain almost total control over their people, they whatch and set up to try and test loyaltity to the state. These nations acts or have some element of George Orwells ‘1984’ in their political system.

We are told about China and North-Korea and their closed systems, yet Saudia Arabia, Algeria, Iran and now the Ukraine are being run by gangster elements dressed up in religious garb or wearing democratic suits.

The bible tells us about great empires and kingdoms such a Babylon and men who though they wer gods, but in the end before the One and Only God they came to nothing and so it has in our own human history.

Jeremiah 27:8-9, Luke 13:31-32.

 

21
Feb
14

Ideology.

Ideology, the ideas of men.

When we look at the world today we are drawn to think of the many closed lands and societies, that do not have or want to have our concepts and what we describe as freedoms.

These nations seem to be closed and controlled, such as North-Korea, China, Cuba and yet there are many lands near and far who practice similar conditions, such as Saudi-Arabia, Iran, Algeria, Sudan, Belarus and the list could go on and on.

Many follow the ideology of men and the party or a system or a king, religion or great leader. Some keep to the ethical code of their revolution. But what does mark them out is all who oppose must be imprisoned for a long time or killed.

It is valuable to read books in relation to Ray Bradbury and Farenheight 451 and George Orwells 1984, with the various films. Both these men were writing about conditions in 1938-1948. They were trying to warn us that any society can turn from what it is now into an idelogical dictatorship.

Genesis Chapter 11,  Exodus 1 :8-22,   Daniel 4:30-32.




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