Misc Orwell

Literary Mindboggling

"...The philosophy of the ruling minority in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it." --Aldus Huxley

The CIA

...obtained the film rights to Animal Farm from Orwell’s widow, Sonia, after his death and covertly funded the production to the animated version of the book. The head of the CIA operation to obtain the film rights was none other than E. Howard Hunt, later famous as Nixon’s Watergate burglar. A large portion of the budget was supplied by the Office of Policy Coordination through one of its shell corporations, Touchstone Inc. Some sources assert that the ending of the story was altered by the CIA, where only the pigs remain, instead of joining forces with the humans, to emphasize an anti-communist message ... The treasurer of the BSCF was Frederic Warburg, whose publishing company Secker & Warburg published Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) as well as Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and works by other leading figures such as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

One of the heads of Secker & Warburg was Roger Senhouse, who had a sado-masochistic homosexual relationship Lytton Strachey of the Bloomsbury Group, which featured a mock crucifixion. Secker & Warburg served as a conduit for funding to Encounter from the Information Research Department (IRD), a department of the British Foreign Office, which was overseen by MI6. IRD, known informally as “the dirty tricks department,” was set up to counter Soviet propaganda and infiltration, particularly amongst the western labor movement.

One of the IRD’s most important early advisors was Arthur Koestler. Working for the IRD was Lord Bertrand Russell, one of five honorary chairmen of the CCF. IRD subsidized the publication of three books by Bertrand Russell: Why Communism Must Fail, What Is Freedom? and What Is Democracy?

Animal Farm was a core project of the IRD. It broadcast the novel on Voice of America, produced an animated version that it distributed in multiple languages, and sponsored translated editions of the work around the world. Orwell himself helped the IRD strategize circulation.

Source: https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-three/european-union

Aldous Huxley

...was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. He was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. After studying at Balliol, Oxford, Huxley taught French at Eton, where George Orwell and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils. During World War I, Huxley spent time among the Bloomsbury Group. Huxley was also involved in the Fabian Society and along with his student George Orwell, he was the protégé of H.G. Wells.

The first Fabian Society

...pamphlets advocating tenets of social justice also advanced eugenics, advocating the ideal of a scientifically planned society and supported eugenics by way of sterilization. According to H.G. Wells:

"We cannot go on giving you health, freedom, enlargement, limitless wealth, if all our gifts to you are to be swamped by an indiscriminate torrent of progeny… and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us."

Source: https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-three/eugenics-sexology

According to George Orwell

...in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Most people understand propaganda as being designed to disguise a nation’s current policies.

What Orwell was trying to highlight is that, in order to be interpreted appropriately, current actions must be placed into a larger historical context. For the most part, that context is so taken for granted that few recognize is as propaganda.

In the case of Western societies, that is a legacy of the Enlightenment, which presents European intellectual culture as the pinnacle of human civilization, having resulted in secular democracy.

In other words, the Aryan Myth. That mythology was mobilized to great effect during World War I to justify America’s entry into the war as a moral obligation to come to the defense of these sacred principles.

Source: https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-three/league-of-nations

Wilhelm Reich

...explained that sexual neuroses derive from the lack of gratification of natural sexuality. Natural sexuality is left unsatisfied and thereby creates neuroses due to suppression of these desires, as in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, by the authoritarian state. For Reich, this state is characterized best by the capitalist state that is based on the unit of the patriarchal family, within which the father mirrors the state as the absolute authority.

While most interpret Nineteen Eight-Four, by Huxley’s former pupil George Orwell, as a warning about the threat of totalitarianism, there is a sub-theme that is of primary concern to the Frankfurt School, their Freudo-Marxist theories about the suppression of sexual instincts by authoritarian rule.

With the Junior Anti-Sex-League, in Nineteen Eight-Four, the Party encourages its members to eliminate the personal sexual attachments that diminish political loyalty. In Part III, O'Brien tells Winston that neurologists are working to eliminate the orgasm because the mental energy required for prolonged worship requires authoritarian suppression of the libido.

Several months after Nineteen Eight-Four was published in 1949,

Huxley wrote to Orwell:

"Agreeing with all that the critics have written of it, I need not tell you, yet once more, how fine and how profoundly important the book is. May I speak instead of the thing with which the book deals — the ultimate revolution?

The first hints of a philosophy of the ultimate revolution — the revolution which lies beyond politics and economics, and which aims at total subversion of the individual’s psychology and physiology — are to be found in the Marquis de Sade, who regarded himself as the continuator, the consummator, of Robespierre and Babeuf. The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it." --Aldus Huxley

Source: https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-four/make-love-not-war

GEORGE ORWELL QUOTES

From: thirdworldtraveler.com

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

"WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

"And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions ... and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive."

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary."

"Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. "

"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?... 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."

"[True] liberty...means allowing people freely to say things you do not want to hear."

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."

"The war [or a "great reset"] against a foreign country [or a domestic population, or the world] only happens when the moneyed classes [aka bankers/elites] think they are going to profit from it."

"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."

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