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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (14423)	5/7/2002 4:04:33 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Re: In his speech, al Shara pointed out that the geographic distance is no excuse for the United States to continue misunderstanding of others along wit its attempt to impose hegemony and dictation instead of understanding and cooperation. He stressed that the U.S. point of views reach every corner in the world without allowing the others to carry their view points to the American people who are living in a closed island of information. Al Shara expressed regret that the U.S. could not invest the sympathy of the world in the wake of Sept.11th events in order to bridge the gap. The problem is the same for all three blocs. It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners, except, to a limited extent, with immigrants and coloured dogsbodies. Even the official ally of the moment is always regarded with the darkest suspicion. Immigrants apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign ideas. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however often Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Sri Lanka may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except exports. Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three blocs are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Laissezfaire, in Eurasia it is called Judeofascism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self. The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all. Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine creed, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. It follows that the three blocs not only cannot conquer one another, but would gain no advantage by doing so. On the contrary, so long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up, like three sheaves of corn. [...] Excerpted from: Message 12958981