Meet The Planner of the Boston Marathon Bombing?

Obviously can't say I agree with everything in the video but some interesting stuff here to say the least...

Spoiler Alert, you may not wanna take the subway in NY in July

Weekdays, from 8 to 8, the entire month of July lol.

You know how tests usually end up in the US.

BYOGM (bring your own gas mask).

This is NOT a Test

Good thing we have an open and free media to inform us of all this shit. Oh wait.

Tsarnaev Brothers had a CIA connection

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1727

More fishy details coming to the surface. The uncle that was shown on tv, used to be married to the daughter of a CIA spook and other interesting stuff in this article. Via disinfo.com.

Added: to be as clear as possible, labels on my blog are possibilities, not certainties. I don't believe anything about the Boston bombings as I don't know anything for sure. See this post.

Illuminati Dutch Dance

Thanks to People Unite, from this forumpost. Pictures of the Dutch dance scene.

Property of (the Knights of) Malta

11 of july 2009

7/7 (London Bombings)

Brazil (movie scene): Terrorism

Obviously not clear enough for Consensus Reality dwellers... Great movie by Terry Gilliam. With Michael Palin, Robert De Niro, Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm,...

Brazil's Ministry of Information logo

illuminatiMATRIX - The Rock - Dome of the Rock

illuminatiMATRIX - The Rock - Dome of the Rock

What just happened? :p

IlluminatiMatrix.wordpress.com

Naruto Synchromysticism

Time for another Synchromystic analysis, learning about the Esoteric truths from the Exoteric illusions. From the new opening Naruto theme song translated from japanese: "You know the closer you get to something, the tougher it is to see it... You gotta be extra careful with the things nearest to you. You know the closer you get to something, the tougher it is to see it." ... and this is even said in english in the same theme song: "You know the closer you get to something, the tougher it is to see it. And I'll never take it for granted."

This is a discussion between two members of the Secret Society in Naruto called A-SS ;p
(I call them A-SecretSociety, see link for real name which is taken from a special WW2 Battleship Destroyer class - I'm not typing the full name anymore because my counter has been rendered useless cause of all the people looking for google images of these "cool bad guys"... I've entered a request at google to remove the image - I replaced - from the google cache. A lesson in releasing attachment to visitor nrs perhaps.)

They kind of "astrally project" their consciousness (see image) into a meeting spot in the material world and meet like this. They're having a discussion, A2 (won't use real names to limit more counter-destroying search results), one of the latest members doesn't even know the freaking endgame yet, so he gets told by a leading A-member I'll just call A1. (my own observations are between "( )" and italic)

A1: Your reasons don't matter at all... Religions, ideals, resources, land, grudges, love or just because. Any trivial thing that motivates people to action will eventually breed war. The reason can be dealt with afterwards, but war will always happen because all people truly want is to to fight. (?! shadow projection I guess)

A2: No one's listening to your long-winded bullshit! I do things my way, for my own purposes, I'm not gonna give all that up for your group.

A1: Working with us means working for us. If we achieve our gouls, yours will be met that much faster...

A's goals can be broken down into three steps:
1. is to amass money.
2. is to use the money to create the first true mercenary organization the shinobi world has ever seen. (Blackwater and other Mercenary Companies without a true "chain of command" or "code of honor" anyone? United Nations Peacekeepers? Obama's domestic security force? Or the Infantry Brigade? Check out this video about the Infantry Brigade... etc.)

A2: Huh? That's the same thing the ninja villages do now! You take a mission, complete it and get paid. You wanna be the leader of a tiny, ghetto village with no country to back it up? That's retarded. (What's retarded is not checking a Society's true agenda first before joining... but...)

A1: It's the exact opposite of a village allied with a country.

Let's start with the basics, countries with large powerful ninja villages (Military Industrial Complexes, Prison Industrial Complexes, Law Enforcement) get the bulk of their capital through shinobi business (War Business! Prison Business. the "criminal justice" system). By fighting battles both within and beyond their borders, these villages earn large amounts of money. Essentially acting as the foundation of the country's economy. (War, Law Enforcement, Prison Industrial complex)

So, for these countries to remain financially stable, they need war (and crime). But nowadays, most missions amount to small skirmishes. Large, destructive wars have all but disappeared. As a result, many shinobi (soldiers) have lost their place as the countries continue cutting expenses. Shinobi who only lived to fight. They risked their lives for their nation, and were thanked by being abandoned. The Five Great Countries are in no danger. Both the countries themselves, and their villages are well respected. They have many clients within the country and others past their border... but that doesn't work for the smaller ones. It costs a lot to maintain a shinobi village, and those costs remain the same in both war and peacetime.
(I had a great related quote on my blog but can't find it back, it was from an British guy who said something like "We realized that we could keep a country running during the Second World War to fight people (the nazis), so we also realized after the war we could keep a country running by helping people, by building hospitals, etc..." Of course, the ones in power realized that suddenly the "commoners" began to come demanding and meddle into "governing" the people. So the propaganda machine started turning to let the people "be free" to do as they were subliminally led...)

But if those smaller villages reduce their forces too drastically, they won't be able to survive if a war breaks out. What A. is doing will change everything. No allegiance to any country, mobilizing only when necessary, using our shinobi only when required. We'll build up our forces through those small villages and countries, and create an army to bring war! (cough, war oF terror, cough, Al Qaeda, cough, Zbigniew Zbrezinski, cough)

In the beginning, we'll fight any war for a minor cost, single-handedly gaining control of the war trade. As word spreads, we'll start using the Bijuu (Secret or Special Weapons) to manufacture our own wars, ones as big or small as the market requires. Before long we'll have a monopoly on war.

The entire village system will fail. (current systems will fail) and the Five Great Countries (Continents) will be forced to use A. Then, and only then, will we have achieved our true goal.
3. The third, and final step. We will control the world.

End of quotation.
Images:
1. Astral Projection of A. members
2. The eye of A1 with stargate symbolism, all 3 last images are timed sequentially as he says "we will control the world"
3. The All-Seeying Eye (ase, ace?...) takes flight
4. A1's real body (not the projection) sits on the tongue of a huge statue in a city reminiscent of Star Wars city Coruscant. Perhaps he is but the mouth piece for a stronger (extradimensional?) being. The A-members also project to the fingers of a huge statue in a cave where they drain the life force of ninjas who have a "daemon" inside them, which could be an allegory for feeding on our energies - I also can see it as them being possible pawns of a "larger" being. But that's just an interpretation of this fiction, not my predominant reality tunnel.

You have to admit, whatever's really going on, some of it is blatantly thrown out there...

Bill Hicks: Iraqi Weapons Conversion

Bill Hicks: Iraqi Weapons Conversion

Another timeless false flag Bill Hicks gem.

Bill Hicks - Gulf War I & George H.W. Bush

Bill Hicks - Gulf War I & George H.W. Bush

Timeless. Other short film version of "bullies of the world"

Prison Break: the Price

This was the best shot I could grab of Sara Tancredi with a Caduceus on her third eye.

"Time was commanders would assemble their troops before a battle and rehearse schemes of maneuver on a square of dirt, using rocks to depict enemy positions. They called these rehearsels rock drills. Laos was our rock drill. Now, it's time for the battle to commence... blabla false money blabla... I'm signing off on the order to open up the next theatre of operations." The General

Double Illuminated South Park Feature

A short Synchromystic write-up for episodes 12x8 and 12x9 from South Park. Synchromysticism on this blog is learning about the esoteric (consciousness or conspiracy related) from the exoteric. I didn't bother to watch the episodes over again entirely so let me know if you want to add anything.
As the good Thuth from ConspiracyGrimoire (site down now) let us know in his Thuther Thoughts PDF: (also broken link sorry!) Kenny=Buddhist, Stan=Mason, Kyle=Moralizer and Zionist, Cartman is the Fascist Neo-Nazi Neo-Con Bullshit Racist Illuminati Authority Figure in the Illuminated South Park. South Park usually has brilliant (though how hard is it to rip on other 'entertainment') but crude multi-layered humor that I'm quite sure most young viewers don't pick up on, as I notice it as I watch it with others.

In Episode 12x8 The China Probrem Cartman (Illuminati resonator) gets Butters, the gullible follower and Sheeple-resonator to join him to save the US from China. Multilayered symbolism again, as Butters also resonates Al Qaeda, or any government false flag mind controlled chump ready to follow orders. Though obviously there is initial resistance, it doesn't last long.

Butters: "I can't stop the Chinese tonight, Eric. I'm suppose to make a model car with my dad."

Things quickly get f'd up in a Chinese Restaurant, as Cartman hands Butters the gun and tells him to shoot. Though things get out of hand and allow me to translate the following:

Cartman: Aww.. dude. You shot him in the dick. (You cut his head off/You tortured him)
Butters: Huh?
Cartman: That's not cool Butters. You don't shoot a guy in the dick. (You don't cut a guy's head off/torture someone)
Butters: But I was just tryin to stop him 'n you said-
Cartman: It doesn't matter Butters! You never shoot a guy in the dick! (...) Everyone knows that! Shooting a guy in the dick!? That's just.. that's just weak... I can't believe you Butters.

So Cartman distances himself from his MK puppet quickly, like the puppetmasters of Al Qaeda and the Army Chain of Command about the Abu Ghraib scandal. Confusing the shit out of the puppet and everybody else.

The episode also rapes Indiana Jones, it alludes to the raping of Indy by Spielberg and Lucas as the ending was not well received by many, though the ones raping Indy really are of course illuminated Matt & Trey themselves, ironic.

At the ending of Indiana Jones we see a spiral staircase and 13 (bloodlines?) aliens turning into one big Grey (sick representation for the hive Illuminati mind? - or less nefariously and plain weak, just higher consciousness) and burns and kills the evil Cate Blanchett cause she is not worthy.
Compare to James Arthur's talk on the Ark of Noah, which may have housed the entheogens that the priesthood wanted to keep secret. So in the first movie for instance, you get burned and killed if you open the Ark, in actuality perhaps, the priesthood would have done that themselves because you found out their empowering secret. A key to Gnosis - Any right-brain activating practice is one of these keys, you don't need anything outside of yourself really. Of course, as James Arthur also mentions, someone ill intentioned and/or unprepared can suffer quite the bad trip too, like the shady government scientist who wanted to use them for Mind Control, haha. Another fascinating take on the Ark here by Daniel Pinchbeck talking about Nassim Haramein's theories.
So Indy has a Circuit 8 experience symbolized by the spiral staircase and extradimensional contact. A rather weak way of symbolizing an altered state of consciousness or higher consciousness. Basically ridiculing it entirely for the masses.

During the reference to The Accused Indy gets raped on a Pinball machine, there is also a reference to Deliverance (pig squealing). Later Spielberg and Lucas get arrested for raping a Stormtrooper, on a mandala like Carpet.

Fitting cause I hate the fact that in the prequels the Clone Troopers were Oztralians all of a sudden.

Butters: So wait, that's it? What about the Chinese invasion?
Cartman: I really don't care anymore, Butters. You see, I've learned something today. As Americans, our fear of seeing another country become powerful can turn us into monsters. Watching how crazy you went, watching you just shoot people in the dick like that, it made me realize that I want America to be safe but not at the cost of losing its dignity. I'd rather us be Chinese than a nation of unethical dick-shooters. (or torturers, aka waterboarders...)
(turns to walk away and points at Butters) You think about that. (Cartman walks away)
Butters: Can't believe they put 'em in jail. I thought that movie was pretty good.

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In episode 12x9 Breast Cancer Show Ever Eric really shows his Illuminati colors as just being a real fucking asshole (I think I never wanted to punch him more lol) mocking Breast Cancer of all things, pissing off Wendy Testaburger so bad she ultimately just has to kick his ass.
[added: It can be interpreted as criticism on the "Breast Cancer Awareness" agenda. Thanks Celtic Rebel: "Awareness leads to more worry leads to more stress leads to more breast cancer, no? Where is all the money going??? We know its not the cure. I'm thinking a good first step towards avoiding breast cancer might be for women to stop irradiating their breasts through mammograms..."]
While alone with Wendy he's a cowardly asshole manipulating her anyway he can to save his own skin, but when others are around he's a monster. Never forget this, the "enemy" perceived as powerful are attached to their attainments and scared to death to lose their precious toys.
Btw folks, this might be more useful to some than others but ever think of investing in good dictaphone? I can only imagine how handy it can be when faced with cops, bosses, government officials and other career-whores who forget what's really important in certain situations.

The Divine Feminine can overcome the Patriarchal bullshit control system easily, it's just that the latter seems so powerful and keeps up appearances no matter what, as illustrated by Cartman's fat body and wretched behaviour, he just doesn't quit. And so Wendy finally gets fed up, draws the line and beats his ass behind it. Which is really what we should be metaphorically doing (in any peaceful way first obviously) during this economic powergrab, wage slavery wasn't bad enough as it was, but no! They have to up the ante even more, a little too much.

References in the episode: Snatch. (notice the point, it is part of the movie title): The entire fight scene between Wendy and Cartman in the end of the episode, is exactly the same as when Brad Pitt fights in Snatch.. What about Snatch.? How about 700 Billion dollars in the states, and the billions across the world The Government-and-Bank cartels stole from the tax payers?

Another reference is to the movie There Will Be Blood: After Wendy wins the fight at the very end of the episode her last line as she walks off is, "I'm finished." She is referring to one of the most popular quotations from the famous ending of the 2007 hit movie There Will Be Blood. (Haven't seen it myself.)

Of course they had to switch things up, because here Wendy takes the role of Daniel Plainview, who is the Oil asshole, and it's the other way around in South Park, she beats the Oil Asshole. Daniel Day Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, as in it's all in plainview suckers, emphasized by the actor and character having the same first name.

There will be blood is about the Oil Family Business. from the trailer: "Why don't I own this?!" Plainview. The tagline for the movie: "When ambition meets faith." When Fake Christians (or other religions) and Greedy Bastards unite. Synopsis of the movie: A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

There will be greed
There will be vengeance
There will be blood

boy: "When do we get our money Daniel?!" ...
Daniel: "I broke you and I beat you!"

"We have a sinner with us." Of course the only thing born in original sin is the institution that came up with that bullshit...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars ep2 Rising Malevolence

Synchromystic write-up for the series Clone Wars Episode 2 Rising Malevolence. The write-up on "Episode 1: AmBush" is here (read the intro if you don't know what's going on here). Synchromysticism on this blog means: Learning about the Esoteric, through the Exoteric. (Whatever excuse we can find in mainstream media and reality in general, to talk about the underlying or hidden realities, and expose possible positive and negative influences in media, put there consciously or not.) These are just possible interpretations.
Synopsis: Anakin and Ahsoka have to save Jedi Master Plo Koon and his clone troopers after the Separatist Army (Dooku & Grievous) uses their devastating new weapon.

Every episode starts with a "Jedi Fortune Cookie",
so far the first two were kinda bad:


Geez... are you a CONVICT of your beliefs?
It can be a matter of choice, just by choosing... heh.
(Divide & Conquer through beliefs.)


Count Dooku: Jam transmissions! (of the Republic's troops)
(confuse their language, obscure the truth, destroy their communication,
divide and conquer them through belief...)

The young Jedi Ahsoka was pressing to look for survivors to the Jedi Councel, who did not agree, a secret weapon the separatists have, has priority. But later Anakin goes on with the search for survivors anyway.

Ahsoka: So it's ok when you don't follow what the council says?
Anakin: Doing what the Jedi council says, that's one thing. How we go about doing it that's another. That's what I'm trying to teach you my young Padawan. (Restrictive "Freedom" for ya, as long as you're following orders)

Ahsoka: But that's what I said in the briefing room!?
Anakin: I know, but the way you said it was wrong. (learn your place, little one...) Hurry up, switch on the illuminator. (Hide shit? why should we hide shit? :p We're "illuminated")

Plo Koon: "When you ask for trouble,
you should not be surprised when it finds you."

later this general and Jedi 'Master' (yuck at calling anyone 'master') when facing certain death goes to face the enemy, "no retreat, no surrender", always a useful philosophy for your expendable troops...

There you go, a few droids destroy an escape pod's window and human crew members are vented into space, suffocating to their deaths. This is children's entertainment, mind you. (more like entrainment).

Ahsoka finds the fellow soldiers (soul-die-ers) in the nick of time.
(bit of a stretch, but funny: Asoko in Japanese: "there, over there")

Plo Koon: Sergeant, why are you so certain no one is coming?
Clone Trooper: We're just clones sir, we're meant to be expendable...
Plo Koon: Not to me. ("please believe this bullshit expendable soldiers, or the Illuminati are powerless" lol)

...And of course Anakin and Ahsoka just arrive...

The bad guys are called the "Separatists" (who don't want a NWO? :p), who are a False Flag division army à la Al Qaeda of Palpatine who is both the leader of the Republic and the Separatists... (and called "your Excellency" of all things) to create a false conflict (between Clones and Droids, and a lot of innocent victims...) out of which to go for an ultimate Power Grab. "Fiction."

Check out the Trinity of symbols near the third eye in all these characters:

Medical Droid.

Ahsoka and Plo Koon.
Creators of this show: Haha, we know about the third eye
and the common joe doesn't.

Suddenly, Dooku and Grievous appear in the star system and they have to power everything down in the ship to not be detected easily. Dammit! R2 the droid is still active, tss "droids"... always a nuisance... The Jedi "Masters" forget about the medical droid they saw A FEW MINUTES ago. Nice...

Suddenly the Medical Droid comes on the bridge: Is there a problem sir? May I be of assistance?
Anakin: No thanks just get in the back and take care of the clones.
Medical Droid: That is my programming sir...

Anakin: Come on we've gotta get outta here
Ahsoka: I know... I know... (*bangs head on desk for the whinification of Star Wars in the Prequels* :p Yes I know, Luke wanted to go to Tashi station to pick up some power converters, but hey hehe.)

Right after this Anakin again forgets something, that R2 is still switched off - to activate the hyperdrive, are these "aware" Jedi masters or a bunch of chumps?

An Ion Cannon, kind of Electromagnetic Pulse is fired. But they escape, barely.
Another great symbol of technology reflecting consciousness. By "disempowering the enemy" overall, you win. Can't think of another technology reflecting consciousness? How about the Internet and the Collective Unconscious?

At the end, a lesson in bureaucracy & hierarchy:

Plo Koon: Skywalker it is time to give our report to the council
Skywalker: Right... the council report, come on Ahsoka
Ahsoka: You want me there, I figured because of before...
Skywalker: Ahsoka, through it all you never gave up, you did a great job, but if I'm getting in trouble for this, you're gonna share some of the blame too. Huhu, so come on, let's go.
Ahsoka: Right beside you master. (good slave)

I saw a few of the following episodes and they're pretty good, not much symbolism found anymore.

Daily Conspiracy: The News

Welcome to the news... WOOGA BOOGA!
In today's headlines! ... PANDEMICS! FEAR! DEATH! WAR! HATE!

EVIL MUSLIMS! IRAN IS DANGEROUS! (ignore the western atrocities)

DID WE MENTION TERRORISTS YET?! TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAH!

GOOD THING YOUR GOVERNMENT HAS THE SOLUTION! OH YAY! PRAISE OUR LEADERS! (The very bestest terrorists!)

IRAN IS ACQUIRING NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES! (IGNORE THE AMERICANS & BRITISH NEW NUCLEAR WEAPON)

BUSH AND BLAIR ARE MEN OF FAITH (the nuclear kind!)

ARABS HAVE THE WRONG KIND OF FAITH AND DESTROYED THE WTC TOWERS (nevermind the pages of evidence that incriminate the bush admin.)

A TRUCK TIPPED OVER TODAY WITH CHEMICAL DEATH SPREADING EVERYWHERE! BE AFRAID!!!!!!!

ANOTHER FOREST WILL BE DESTROYED FOR OUR ADVANCEMENT! WE ARE SO ADVANCED!!!

BUT BTW ISN'T IT WONDERFUL TO LIVE IN DEMOCRACY, I MEAN HOW FREE ARE YOU?! WHOOO! WHOOO!!!

*insert random community piece nobody gives a fuck about*

and now sports... bla bla steroids bla bla bribes bla bla...

Ok that's it slaves, please stay tuned for even more retarded crap!

WESTERN MAINSTREAM 'JOURNALISM'
IS DEAD!
If you don't chuckle at least 10 times during ANY news broadcast it's time to WAKE UP!

"When the bio-survival circuit flashes danger, all other mental activity ceases."
Robert Anton Wilson

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Objective Journalism is a myth:
Firstly the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum physics states that you can't leave the observer out of the observation. A story is filtered through an individual consciousness, which frames the piece, evaluates information, tries to gain interviews with those subjects unwilling to give information and attempts to finish the work by deadline under difficult conditions.

"Why bother with newspapers, if this is all they offer? Agnew was right. The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
Hunter S. Thompson

The Nazis used to call propaganda by its name, now the western world shamelessly calls it journalism.

"Everytime I read the news, I'm always more confused.
They're telling me to choose, but there's only lies to choose from."
Michael Franti

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
Richard Salent, Former President CBS News

Jon Stewart knows the news is controlled by a few companies and that it's one big meme-pushing farce, every daily show viewer knows, it's only gonna take them a few more years to realize it... Cause they wouldn't wanna be labeled anything related to conspiracy now would they!

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Streaming Vids

Brian Springer: Spin
Orwell rolls in his grave: Operation Mockingbird CIA Media Manipulation
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's war on Journalism
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Georgia-Russia Media Bias

12 year old ossetian girl tells the truth about Georgia.

Check out these articles: Row escalates over U.S. media bias (expand that to Western media bias, cause European mainstream media is doing the same), Bush Speech Continues Dangerous Brinkmanship with Russia, Putin’s winning hand: Once the Atlantic alliance is shattered, America’s lifeline to the world is kaput and Georgian President Saakashvili eats his tie on TV live (1.03 in the below video)

Daily Conspiracy: Illuminatus!

Excerpt from the semi-fictional novel 'Illuminatus! Trilogy - Eye in the Pyramid' by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, written between 1969 and 1971.

"The Illuminati. The real force behind all communist and fascist movements. Whether you're aware of it or not, they're also already in control of the United States government."

"I thought everybody in your crowd was a right-winger—"

"And I told you spacial metaphors are inadequate in discussing politics today," Hagbard interrupted.

"Well, you sound like a gang of right-wingers. Up until the last minute, all I've heard from you and your people was that the Illuminati were commies, or were behind the commies. Now you say they're behind fascism and behind the current government in Washington, too."

Hagbard laughed. "We came on like right-wing paranoids, at first, to see how you'd react. It was a test."

"And?"

"You passed. You didn't believe us—that was obvious—but you kept your eyes and ears open and were willing to listen. If you were a right-winger, we would have done our pro-communist rap. The idea is to find out if a new man or woman will listen, really listen, or just shut their minds at the first really shocking idea."

"I'm listening, but not uncritically. For instance, if the Illuminati control America already, what's the purpose of the assassinations?"

"Their grip on Washington is still pretty precarious. They've been able to socialize the economy. But if they showed their hand now and went totalitarian all the way, there would be a revolution. Middle-readers would rise up with right-wingers, and left-libertarians, and the Illuminati aren't powerful enough to withstand that kind of massive revolution. But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution."

"What sort of tools?"

"More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. The assassinations, you see, establish the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason—or are manipulated into reasoning—that the entire populace must have its freedom restricted in order to protect the leaders. The people agree that they themselves can't be trusted. Targets for assassination will be mavericks of left or right who are either not part of the Illuminati conspiracy or have been marked as unreliable. The Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, for example, were capable of mobilizing a somewhat libertarian left-right-black-white populist movement. But the assassinations that have occurred so far are nothing compared to what will take place. The next wave will be carried out by the Mafia, who will be paid in Illuminati gold."

"Not Moscow gold," said George with a smile.

"The puppets in the Kremlin have no idea that they and the puppets in the White House are working for the same people. The Illuminati control all sorts of organizations and national governments without any of them being aware that others are also controlled. Each group thinks it is competing with the others, while actually each is playing its part in the Illuminati plan. Even the Morituri—the six-person affinity groups which splintered from the SDS Weathermen, because the Weathermen seemed too cautious—are under the control of the Illuminati. They think they're working to bring down the government, but actually they are strengthening its hand. The Black Panthers are also infiltrated.

Everything is infiltrated. At present rate, within the next few years the Illuminati will have the American people under tighter surveillance than Hitler had the Germans. And the beauty of it is, the majority of the Americans will have been so frightened by Illuminati-backed terrorist incidents that they will beg to be controlled as a masochist begs for the whip."

George shrugged. Hagbard sounded like a typical paranoid, but there was this submarine and the strange events of the past few days. "So the Illuminati are conspiring to tyrannize the world, is that it? Do you trace them back to the First International?"

They're what happened when the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century collided with German mysticism. The correct name for the organization is Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria. According to their own traditions they were founded or revived in seventeen seventy-six on May first by a man named Adam Weishaupt. Weishaupt was an unfrocked Jesuit and a Mason. He taught that religions and national governments had to be overthrown and the world ruled by an elite of scientifically-minded materialistic atheists, to be held in trust for the masses of mankind who would eventually rule themselves when enlightenment became universal. But this was only Weishaupt's 'Outer Doctrine.' There was also an 'Inner Doctrine,' which was that power is an end in itself, and that Weishaupt and his closest followers would make use of the new knowledge being developed by scientists and engineers to seize control of the world. Back in seventeen seventy-six, things were run largely by the Church and the feudal nobility, with the capitalists slowly getting a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Weishaupt declared that these groups were obsolete, and it was time for an elite with a monopoly on scientific and technological knowledge to seize power. Instead of eventually producing a democratic society, as the 'Outer Doctrine' promised, the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria would saddle mankind with a dictatorship that would last forever."

"Well, it would be logical enough that someone around that time would think of that," said George. "And who more likely than a Mason who was an unfrocked Jesuit?"

"Well, the Illuminati, after staying above ground long enough to recruit a hard-core membership from Masons and freethinkers and to establish international contacts, allowed it to seem that the Bavarian government had suppressed them. Subsequently, the Illuminati launched their first experimental revolution, in France. Here they suckered the middle class, whose true interests lay in laissez faire free enterprise, to follow the Weishaupt slogan of 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.' The catch, of course, is that where equality and fraternity rule, there is no liberty. After the career of Napoleon, whose rise and fall was purely the result of Illuminati manipulations, they started planting the seeds of European socialism, leading to the revolutions of eighteen forty-eight, to Marxism, finally to the seizure of Russia, one-sixth of the earth's land mass. Of course, they had to engineer a world war to make the Russian Revolution possible, but by nineteen seventeen they had become quite good at that. World War Two was an even more clever job and resulted in more gains for them."

"Another thing this explains," George said, "is why orthodox Marxism-Leninism, in spite of all its ideals, always turns out to be not worth a shit. Why it's always betrayed the people wherever it established itself. And it explains why there's such an inevitable quality about America's drift toward totalitarianism."

"Right," said Hagbard. "America is the target now. They've got most of Europe and Asia. Once they get America, they can come out into the open. The world will then be much as Orwell predicted in Nineteen Eighty-four. They bumped him off after it was published, you know. The book hit a little too close to home. He was obviously on to them—the references to Inner and Outer parties with different teachings, O'Brien's speech about power being an end in itself—and they got him. Orwell, you see, ran across them in Spain, where they were functioning quite openly at one point during the Civil War. But artists also arrive at truth through their imaginations, if they let themselves wander freely. They're more likely to arrive at the truth than more scientific-minded people."

"You've just tied two hundred years of world history up in a theory that would make me feel I should have myself committed if I accepted it," said George. "But I'm drawn to it, I admit. Partly intuitively—I feel you are a person who is essentially sane and not paranoid. Partly because the orthodox version of history that I was taught in school never made sense to me, and I know how people can twist history to suit their beliefs, and therefore I assume that the history I've learned is twisted. Partly because of the very wildness of the idea. If I learned one thing in the last few years, it's that the crazier an idea is the more likely it is to be true. Still and all, given all those reasons for believing you, I would like some further sign."

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"In her opinion the war was not happening, the rocket bombs that fell daily on London were probably fired by the government of Oceania itself, just to keep people frightened. That was an idea that had literally never occured to him..." 1984

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
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following is an excerpt starting with the main character Winston reading the following subversive book:

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM

by Emmanuel Goldstein

Winston began reading:

Chapter I Ignorance is Strength

Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.

The aims of these groups are entirely irreconcilable...

Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. The sweet summer air played against his cheek. From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was etemity. Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one knows that one will ultimately read and re-read every word, he opened it at a different place and found himself at Chapter III. He went on reading:

Chapter III War is Peace
The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century. With the absorption of Europe by Russia and of the British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectively in being. The third, Eastasia, only emerged as a distinct unit after another decade of confused fighting. The frontiers between the three super-states are in some places arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war, but in general they follow geographical lines. Eurasia comprises the whole of the northern part of the European and Asiatic land-mass, from Portugal to the Bering Strait. Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa. Eastasia, smaller than the others and with a less definite western frontier, comprises China and the countries to the south of it, the Japanese islands and a large but fluctuating portion of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet.

In one combination or another, these three super-states are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth centary. It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference. This is not to say that either the conduct of war, or the prevailing attitude towards it, has become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous. On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious. But in a physical sense war involves very small numbers of people, mostly highly-trained specialists, and causes comparatively few casualties. The fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can only guess at, or round the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. In the centres of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths. War has in fact changed its character. More exactly, the reasons for which war is waged have changed in their order of importance. Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth centuary have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon.

To understand the nature of the present war -- for in spite of the regrouping which occurs every few years, it is always the same war -- one must realize in the first place that it is impossible for it to be decisive. None of the three super-states could be definitively conquered even by the other two in combination. They are too evenly matched, and their natural defences are too formidable. Eurasia is protected by its vast land spaces. Oceania by the width of the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eastasia by the fecundity and industriousness of its inhabitants. Secondly, there is no longer, in a material sense, anything to fight about. With the establishment of self-contained economies, in which production and consumption are geared to one another, the scramble for markets which was a main cause of previous wars has come to an end, while the competition for raw materials is no longer a matter of life and death. In any case each of the three super-states is so vast that it can obtain almost all the materials that it needs within its own boundaries. In so far as the war has a direct economic purpose, it is a war for labour power. Between the frontiers of the super-states, and not permanently in the possession of any of them, there lies a rough quadrilateral with its corners at Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin, and Hong Kong, containing within it about a fifth of the population of the earth. It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling. In practice no one power ever controls the whole of the disputed area. Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by a sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment.

All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods. But above all they contain a bottomless reserve of cheap labour. Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies. The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labour power, to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely. It should be noted that the fighting never really moves beyond the edges of the disputed areas. The frontiers of Eurasia flow back and forth between the basin of the Congo and the northern shore of the Mediterranean; the islands of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific are constantly being captured and recaptured by Oceania or by Eastasia; in Mongolia the dividing line between Eurasia and Eastasia is never stable; round the Pole all three powers lay claim to enormous territories which in fact are largely unihabited and unexplored: but the balance of power always remains roughly even, and the territory which forms the heartland of each super-state always remains inviolate. Moreover, the labour of the exploited peoples round the Equator is not really necessary to the world's economy. They add nothing to the wealth of the world, since whatever they produce is used for purposes of war, and the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. By their labour the slave populations allow the tempo of continuous warfare to be speeded up. But if they did not exist, the structure of world society, and the process by which it maintains itself, would not be essentially different.

The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. At present, when few human beings even have enough to eat, this problem is obviously not urgent, and it might not have become so, even if no artificial processes of destruction had been at work. The world of today is a bare, hungry, dilapidated place compared with the world that existed before 1914, and still more so if compared with the imaginary future to which the people of that period looked forward. In the early twentieth century, the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly, and efficient -- a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete -- was part of the consciousness of nearly every literate person. Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society. As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago. Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices, always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage, have been developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped, and the ravages of the atomic war of the nineteen-fifties have never been fully repaired. Nevertheless the dangers inherent in the machine are still there. From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process -- by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute -- the machine did raise the living standards of the average humand being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction -- indeed, in some sense was the destruction -- of a hierarchical society. In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. To return to the agricultural past, as some thinkers about the beginning of the twentieth century dreamed of doing, was not a practicable solution. It conflicted with the tendency towards mechanization which had become quasi-instinctive throughout almost the whole world, and moreover, any country which remained industrially backward was helpless in a military sense and was bound to be dominated, directly or indirectly, by its more advanced rivals.

Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in poverty by restricting the output of goods. This happened to a great extent during the final phase of capitalism, roughly between 1920 and 1940. The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity. But this, too, entailed military weakness, and since the privations it inflicted were obviously unnecessary, it made opposition inevitable. The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed. A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo-ships. Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built. In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population. In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life; but this is looked on as an advantage. It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. Nevertheless, the few luxuries that he does enjoy his large, well-appointed flat, the better texture of his clothes, the better quality of his food and drink and tobacco, his two or three servants, his private motor-car or helicopter -- set him in a different world from a member of the Outer Party, and the members of the Outer Party have a similar advantage in comparison with the submerged masses whom we call 'the proles'. The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them. But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society. What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.

All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon. The search for new weapons continues unceasingly, and is one of the very few remaining activities in which the inventive or speculative type of mind can find any outlet. In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science'. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. The fields are cultivated with horse-ploughs while books are written by machinery. But in matters of vital importance -- meaning, in effect, war and police espionage -- the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated. The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. In so far as scientific research still continues, this is its subject matter. The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life. In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests, or in the Australian desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the teams of experts are indefatigably at work. Some are concerned simply with planning the logistics of future wars; others devise larger and larger rocket bombs, more and more powerful explosives, and more and more impenetrable armour- plating; others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents, or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies; others strive to produce a vehicle that shall bore its way under the soil like a submarine under the water, or an aeroplane as independent of its base as a sailing-ship; others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre.

But none of these projects ever comes anywhere near realization, and none of the three super-states ever gains a significant lead on the others. What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover. Although the Party, according to its habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as early as the nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about ten years later. At that time some hundreds of bombs were dropped on industrial centres, chiefly in European Russia, Western Europe, and North America. The effect was to convince the ruling groups of all countries that a few more atomic bombs would mean the end of organized society, and hence of their own power. Thereafter, although no formal agreement was ever made or hinted at, no more bombs were dropped. All three powers merely continue to produce atomic bombs and store them up against the decisive opportunity which they all believe will come sooner or later. And meanwhile the art of war has remained almost stationary for thirty or forty years. Helicopters are more used than they were formerly, bombing planes have been largely superseded by self-propelled projectiles, and the fragile movable battleship has given way to the almost unsinkable Floating Fortress; but otherwise there has been little development. The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use. And in spite of the endless slaughters reported in the Press and on the telescreens, the desperate battles of earlier wars, in which hundreds of thousands or even millions of men were often killed in a few weeks, have never been repeated.

None of the three super-states ever attempts any manoeuvre which involves the risk of serious defeat. When any large operation is undertaken, it is usually a surprise attack against an ally. The strategy that all three powers are following, or pretend to themselves that they are following, is the same. The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining, and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep. During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots; finally they will all be fired simultaneously, with effects so devastating as to make retaliation impossible. It will then be time to sign a pact of friendship with the remaining world-power, in preparation for another attack. This scheme, it is hardly necessary to say, is a mere daydream, impossible of realization. Moreover, no fighting ever occurs except in the disputed areas round the Equator and the Pole: no invasion of enemy territory is ever undertaken. This explains the fact that in some places the frontiers between the superstates are arbitrary. Eurasia, for example, could easily conquer the British Isles, which are geographically part of Europe, or on the other hand it would be possible for Oceania to push its frontiers to the Rhine or even to the Vistula. But this would violate the principle, followed on all sides though never formulated, of cultural integrity. If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level. The problem is the same for all three super-states. It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners, except, to a limited extent, with war prisoners and coloured slaves. Even the official ally of the moment is always regarded with the darkest suspicion. War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however often Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.

Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self. The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all. Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. It follows that the three super-states not only cannot conquer one another, but would gain no advantage by doing so. On the contrary, so long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up, like three sheaves of corn. And, as usual, the ruling groups of all three powers are simultaneously aware and unaware of what they are doing. Their lives are dedicated to world conquest, but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory. Meanwhile the fact that there is no danger of conquest makes possible the denial of reality which is the special feature of Ingsoc and its rival systems of thought. Here it is necessary to repeat what has been said earlier, that by becoming continuous war has fundamentally changed its character.

In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory or defeat. In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality. All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency. So long as defeat meant the loss of independence, or some other result generally held to be undesirable, the precautions against defeat had to be serious. Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions. Moreover, to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past. Newspapers and history books were, of course, always coloured and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practised today would have been impossible. War was a sure safeguard of sanity, and so far as the ruling classes were concerned it was probably the most important of all safeguards. While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.

But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded. As we have seen, researches that could be called scientific are still carried out for the purposes of war, but they are essentially a kind of daydreaming, and their failure to show results is not important. Efficiency, even military efficiency, is no longer needed. Nothing is efficient in Oceania except the Thought Police. Since each of the three super-states is unconquerable, each is in effect a separate universe within which almost any perversion of thought can be safely practised. Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life -- the need to eat and drink, to get shelter and clothing, to avoid swallowing poison or stepping out of top-storey windows, and the like. Between life and death, and between physical pleasure and physical pain, there is still a distinction, but that is all. Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be. They are obliged to prevent their followers from starving to death in numbers large enough to be inconvenient, and they are obliged to remain at the same low level of military technique as their rivals; but once that minimum is achieved, they can twist reality into whatever shape they choose.

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three super-states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed for ever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This -- although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense -- is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: War is Peace.

Winston stopped reading for a moment. Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. The blissful feeling of being alone with the forbidden book, in a room with no telescreen, had not worn off. Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek. The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

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After the revolutionary period of the fifties and sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low. But the new High group, unlike all its forerunners, did not act upon instinct but knew what was needed to safeguard its position. It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called 'abolition of private property' which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals. Individually, no member of the Party owns anything, except petty personal belongings. Collectively, the Party owns everything in Oceania, because it controls everything, and disposes of the products as it thinks fit. In the years following the Revolution it was able to step into this commanding position almost unopposed, because the whole process was represented as an act of collectivization. It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow: and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated. Factories, mines, land, houses, transport -- everything had been taken away from them: and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property. Ingsoc, which grew out of the earlier Socialist movement and inherited its phraseology, has in fact carried out the main item in the Socialist programme; with the result, foreseen and intended beforehand, that economic inequality has been made permanent.

But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently. Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.

After the middle of the present century, the first danger had in reality disappeared. Each of the three powers which now divide the world is in fact unconquerable, and could only become conquerable through slow demographic changes which a government with wide powers can easily avert. The second danger, also, is only a theoretical one. The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed. The recurrent economic crises of past times were totally unnecessary and are not now permitted to happen, but other and equally large dislocations can and do happen without having political results, because there is no way in which discontent can become articulate. As fcr the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare (see Chapter III), which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch. From the point of view of our present rulers, therefore, the only genuine dangers are the splitting-off of a new group of able, under-employed, power-hungry people, and the growth of liberalism and scepticism in their own ranks. The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously moulding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way.

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