In recent years,
many writers have given us their vision of the coming collectivist future. At
the turn of the century, neither Edward Bellamy nor H. G. Wells suspected that
the collectivist societies of their dreams were so close at hand. As
collectivism sprouted following World War I, many keen observers felt that
there was a big difference between the idyllic Edens pictured by Bellamy and
Wells and the actual conditions of the various “waves of the future.”…..Aldous
Huxley’s Brave New World and Ayn
Rand’s Anthem. Both of their
future worlds, evil as they were, had saving graces. Huxley’s future was
spiritually dead, but at least the masses were happy; Ayn Rand’s dictators were
timid, stupid men who permitted a renascent individualist to escape from the
strangling collectivist world and begin life anew.
George Orwell’s
collectivist Utopia has plugged all the loopholes. There is no hope at all for
the individual or for humanity, and so the effect on the reader is devastating.
Orwell’s future is run by a Party whose job is the total exercise of Power, and
it goes about its job with diabolic efficiency and ingenuity. ...... Winston
Smith, the pathetic heretic,“but I don’t understand why.”….The
Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good
of others; we are interested solely in power……
Orwell’s
collectivist world of the future is doubtless a nightmare—but is it merely a
dream?...To Read More…..
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