Same as it ever was. The entire Orwell quote speaks to that: "Within twenty years at the most, he reflected, the huge and simple question, 'Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?' would have ceased once and for all to be answerable. But in effect it was unanswerable even now, since the few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable of comparing one age with another. They remembered a million useless things, a quarrel with a workmate, a hunt for a lost bicycle pump, the expression on a long-dead sister's face, the swirls of dust on a windy morning seventy years ago: but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision. They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones. And when memory failed and written records were falsified when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested"
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?" > > I don't think that question is answerable at this moment. The new dictator > is trying to consolidate his power and shut the military out. The military > is trying to maintain it's power. The citizens are caught in the middle. > With no viable third choice, I would suspect a return to the same > conditions that existed in Mubarak: total oppression with a secret police > force and secret prisons to keep the people in line. > > Syria looks like it is heading down the same path. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362791 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
