"if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "

I am sorry that I haven’t written in a few days but I have been feeling a little down (that should be a warning this may take awhile), there was the acquittal of those police officers shooting that unarmed man in New York (he was on his bachelor party), they didn’t identify themselves, and when they began to shoot into the car he attempted to drive off, the officers defense was that they felt they were in ‘immanent danger’, they shot reloaded and shot numerous times. And there were a few other things, but I try not to write about these things for the sake of not sounding negative.

Today is the Birthday of George Orwell he was a great writer and his books were intricate his language concise but what I have found to be truly amazing, was that his vision was mythic.

I was in a conversation with a friend the other day describing an incident where the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was being grilled on some social service mechanism in a ‘Town Hall’ style meeting, and some poor soul stood up and began to describe his situation; he had lost his job and his home, his family was struggling, and he was being denied social services, and he could not get an answer as to why. The Governor looked him in the eye, introduced himself, and then asked for the mans contact information, and said that he would look into the matter ‘personally’ and find out exactly what the situation was, and why the services were not being provided. Now maybe he didn’t do anything, maybe he forgot… or just maybe, for one moment, this horrible bureaucracy was given a face and showed an air of humanity.

When I look at the two potential Democratic National Candidates, (DNC) I see very little difference in their policies, and I see very little difference in their campaigns, however in one case I see someone that has the potential to give the unaccountable horde of bureaucratic sheep a face, and in the other I see a cold idol, manufactured for popular consumption and presented by the machine. When I hear about things like those police getting off, or about Wesley Snipes being sent to prison for tax evasion, I am reminded how far we have too go, or how much further away we are getting. Let me make it clear, I don’t condone breaking the law and I don’t condone not paying your taxes however, I dictate my ideals they don’t dictate to me. The Nation that you and I live in is no longer the same Nation that your Grandparents or Parents once voted in, paid taxes to, fought and died for.

I no longer believe in revolution and I may not even believe in “change” but I have seen the incompetency of the multitude hidden behind the acronyms of the bureaucracy, the IRS, the DMV, the CPS, the GOP… etc. etc. I have seen how the inverted ideals of the machines weeds out the compassionate and the strong, and I have seen how it rewards the weak and gutless. I have seen the qualities that it takes to rise in the bureaucratic corporations are the same qualities that would deny the humanity and accountability necessary for change. And I have seen how they mask their immorality and deny their complicity with these corporate mechanisms.

There was once a time when I would not vote, I believe if you voted you were a party to the whole criminal conspiracy and in turn you had no right to complain, but me, I did not participate, and I did not ask for any part of it, therefore I alone had the right to complain. But here it is another election season and I am primed to be duped by anyone who promises “change”, Hoping that the qualities that it takes to rise to the part of the machine that is actually capable of making any valid decision, are not corrupted by the fear and incompetence of those that would continue to perpetuate the lies.

By the way, George Orwell’s Birthday was today he was Brilliant

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."

-George Orwell 1984

"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children."

-George Orwell 1984