Re: "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
A Technocracy member is expected to have no private opinions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and selfabasement before the power and wisdom of the Technocracy. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Bin Laden Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline.
From 1984, George Orwell, 1948.
Subject 33609
Re: "Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanos remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."
--Secretary of Defense William Cohen in 1997
The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of opinion polls, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, bombshell news, advertising, and manipulations; or he is chemist, physicist, or geneticist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.
In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests, or in the Siberian desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the teams of experts are indefatigably at work.
Some are concerned simply with planning the logistics of future economic wars; others devise larger and larger dumpings, more and more powerful marketings, and more and more impassable trade barriers; others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents, or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies (*); others strive to produce a financial vehicle that shall roam the world like a submarine under the water, or a foreign subsidiary as independent of its parent company as a spy drone; others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial financial upheavals and inflationary tidal waves by tapping the hidden face of international finance.
George Orwell, op. cit.
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