Whatever military, political, economic and social theories you hold, if they cannot explain this apparent paradox, or if, even worse, they fail to even acknowledge this most salient fact of geopolitics for most of the last century, then they are totally worthless. [6/]
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"In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes." — Thomas Paine, "Rights of Man" [7/]
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"The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies." — Robert Conquest [8/]
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Obviously, USG does not in any way act in the interest of the American People, but of its own. The multi-trillion dollar boondoggle is not a burden lost, but a fortune won, to the Establishment that has conquered from within a country that was never beaten from without. [9/]
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The Establishment's ideology is communist in all but name: the name lost its marketing value in 1991, the ideas have only grown freed from the name. Though surely its policies are closer to Lenin's NEP than to Stalin's dekulakization. [10/]
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Don't get it wrong, though: if the the communist elite embraces to a large point a capitalistic system in the USA, it is not because it upholds "moderate principles" in its communism — an oxymoron indeed. Moderation is just an opportunistic matter of means. [11/]
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Rather, the communist elite embraces capitalism for two reasons: First and foremost, because it understands this capitalism creates the fantastic wealth that feeds its political power and finances its supremacy over rival communist super-powers. [12/]
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Second, because it has to deal with a populace that for the moment is still armed physically (with guns) and mentally (with common sense) against the onslaught of its ideology. But not for long. [13/]
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Between a constant push for arms confiscation, and an education system and mass media that have been almost completely conquered by the communists, it is only a matter of time before totalitarianism is achieved here as there. [14/]
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The population has already lost the mental structures and means of organization to actively push back; it cannot fight the inevitable, only delay it through inertia, its only, passive, defense. "Conservativism is progressivism driving the speed limit" —
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Once this internal resistance is finally vanquished, the only limit to how totalitarian Oceania can be will be the outer pressure: allowing just enough freedom to produce wealth so that it can afford to stay on top of the Eternal War with Eurasia and/or Eastasia. [16/]
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And considering how little freedom Eurasia and Eastasia are doing with, that's a pretty low bar that we should expect Oceania to emulate. [17/17]
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