War is Peace

Before going into detail of the brilliance of this sentence, I would like to refer to the genius George Orwell who wrote the book "1984" which amazed me and all its readers for sure... This guy is totally Nutts to write something like that...

War is Peace...

Lets just look at the whole big slogan of Oceania

"War is Peace

Ignorance is Strength

Freedom is Slavery"

Not only does he give a full account of a world of communism and how horrible it gets... He makes the reader live in this communist world and feel trapped, stressed, scared, and rebelious... What is more interesting is that we are living in the world he is describing in the book... Although it is not as harsh as he puts it, but still contains many of the basic facts and problems...

War is Peace...

I read this part of the book where he talks about this particular part of the slogan... And the idea or the meaning of it simply amazed me... I couldnt leave the book till I totally figured out what he wants to explain out of it...

Since the world is divided into 3 parts... 3 superpowers who basically have the same thoughts, the same constitution, the same rules, and the same power, but assume that they are totally different areas with totally different ways of thinking... Oceania, which is basically ruled by England is in continuous war with its enemy (Eastasia or Eurasia; one of them) without there being any reason but that war but a political/economic one... It is a very tricky one and it reminds me of the world I'm living in right now...

If there is war, it means that all the resources and inventions of a country are directed towards the production of arms and the spending on the military and on the war... Which means taking money from the people and their resources... People are poor and scared... They worry only about survival... They worry about their basic physical needs of food, clothing, shelter and safety from the war... Hence, they have no space to think about the corruption of the government... The government makes this war to make use of the surplus produced by its labor... If this surplus prevails, people will have luxuries and accordingly will have time and space to think, react and become intelligent... But with war, there is poverty and with poverty comes illiteracy, and the need for survival and that is basically it... No room for rebellion... No room for a voice to be heard...

So smart of a corrupt government... So smart of a corrupt world... What does the U.S. do to the world? It threatens it every single second with a war... What they are doing in Iraq? Knowing that a country could have good weapons that could beat it, they killed the whole country, its president, its citizens, its economy, every single thing, so that they could return to their poverty and worry about nothing but survival... And this is the case for every third world country or a Muslim country who would try or seem to threaten the so called "peace" the Americans are trying to live in... Their peace is our war... Their peace is us being in war forever... Being poor forever... Being backward all the time...

They simply break their own rules or peace... Because it would deprive them of their own peace... They are the only ones to have a surplus to distribute it on us, Third World countries and we stay as we are, poor and ignorant... Unable to have a voice... Unable to get out of the war...

Its an economic war... A war of hunger, death, ignorance, for the whole world but them...

Orwell was right... He expected it all 50 years ago...