“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. 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 toward more pain.”
If you don’t believe me, look around you next time you walk down the street and count the CCTV cameras watching, recording your every step. Or read the newspaper or listen to the news and see which civil right has been criminalised today in the name of freedom and democracy purporting to protect those very rights and freedoms that are being eroded.
(The quote at the start, by the way,
is from George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’)
