Your Orwell quote about power is very telling. I was having a discussion with a friend about the aims of this administration. He couldn’t see why they wanted more and more power. That was because he is a normal human being as most of us are. I read somewhere that about one out of a thousand people are born without a conscience, I believe they are all in politics and the military. Most of us can’t comprehend the push for more and more power, and the complete lack of empathy for the victims of their wars. We must just take it on faith that there are people who will stop at nothing and who care about no one. Just look at the Bush administration’s actions. Murder,torture, state terrorism, destruction of our constitution. Nothing matters to them but more and more power.
Granted, anyone can do terrible things under the ’right circumstances’ but the people who start and continue wars are doing terrible things from a position of safety and comfort. That is what is so hard to grasp. To get normal people to go along with them they appeal to fear and our instinct for self preservation. We are under a constant barrage of warning of danger, while all the time our government is who we need to fear.
Your Orwell quote about power is very telling. I was having a discussion with a friend about the aims of this administration. He couldn’t see why they wanted more and more power. That was because he is a normal human being as most of us are. I read somewhere that about one out of a thousand people are born without a conscience, I believe they are all in politics and the military. Most of us can’t comprehend the push for more and more power, and the complete lack of empathy for the victims of their wars. We must just take it on faith that there are people who will stop at nothing and who care about no one. Just look at the Bush administration’s actions. Murder,torture, state terrorism, destruction of our constitution. Nothing matters to them but more and more power.
Granted, anyone can do terrible things under the ’right circumstances’ but the people who start and continue wars are doing terrible things from a position of safety and comfort. That is what is so hard to grasp. To get normal people to go along with them they appeal to fear and our instinct for self preservation. We are under a constant barrage of warning of danger, while all the time our government is who we need to fear.