{"id":15088,"date":"2015-12-08T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15088"},"modified":"2015-12-08T07:51:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:51:25","slug":"george-orwell-edward-bernays-perpetual-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15088","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell, Edward Bernays &#038; Perpetual War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-12-07\/george-orwell-edward-bernays-perpetual-war\" target=\"_blank\">George Orwell, Edward Bernays &amp; Perpetual War<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"tabs\"><strong>Another horrific act of terror, another shrill chorus calls the faithful to war.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s a recurring phenomenon in this early Twenty-first Century. The horrible news crashes from the heavens like a meteor, violently jolting us from the Saint Vitus Dance of our produce-consume existence. Our screens with all the answers flash between splattered blood on the pavement and the victims\u2019 smiling faces as they were in life. From the Middle East we hear little and see less of the shattered lives on the receiving end of our vengeance.\u00a0<strong>Like giving a fifth of bourbon to a drunk prostrate on the pavement, our leaders advocate more slaughter as the solution to the world\u2019s problems<\/strong>. Mass civilian casualties is the global order of the day, the constant in our lives.<\/div>\n<div class=\"node\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><strong>Orwell\u2019s essay on Perpetual War in \u201c1984\u201d is currently enjoying a revival in certain circles.\u00a0<\/strong>Through the novel\u2019s mysterious bogey man, Emmanuel Goldstein, Orwell avers that technological innovations have brought industry to such a level of efficiency that material abundance and leisure should be attainable to all. Widespread material comfort and spare time would allow the populace to develop intellectually and spiritually, and thus to achieve a kind of universal enlightenment.\u00a0<strong>Orwell argues that with such leisure-based understanding, humanity would question the necessity for hierarchy and begin to threaten the arrangement that so benefits those at society\u2019s pinnacle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>During the first half of the Twentieth Century those atop \u201c1984\u201d\u2019s pyramid perceived this eventuality and identified a leisured, enlightened public as a threat to social stability and their dominant position.\u00a0<\/strong>The ruling caste devised Perpetual War as a way of keeping industrial production humming. Orwell plainly states, \u201cThe primary aim of modern warfare\u2026 is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Orwell, Edward Bernays &amp; Perpetual War Another horrific act of terror, another shrill chorus calls the faithful to war.\u00a0It\u2019s a recurring phenomenon in this early Twenty-first Century. The horrible news crashes from the heavens like a meteor, violently jolting us from the Saint Vitus Dance of our produce-consume existence. 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