From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (698th day):
Just saw this quote today in one of FB posts. It seems Huxley was able to predict the future more accurately. Or maybe Huxley‘s description fits the tendencies of the democratic world, while Orwell wrote about dictatorships. How do you see these concerns reflected in today’s society?
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”
“In 1984”, Huxley added, “people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.”
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. ~Neil Postman
(Book: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman)
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Colossians 3
“If [since?] you are raised with Christ, set your mind, not on earthly things, but on things above, where Christ is!
You were baptized into His death. You are dead. Your life is hid with Christ in God. Christ is your life. When He appears, you also will appear with Him in glory.”
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From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 698):
The Lord has made known his salvation;
he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Psalm 98:2
Today is the Ukrainian Unity Day.
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Our Father in heaven,
[Orwell/Huxley leave GOD out of all their imagining]
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One year ago:
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (333rd day of ruzzian invasion): Last year around this time we already lived in the shadow of the war. By then, we kept reading in reprinted western articles about specific dates of possible ruzzian invasion. The Embassies were beginning to evacuate their families from Kyiv, multinational companies were urging their Ukrainian employees to consider relocating, and western missions started pulling missionaries from the field. One had to be blind and in complete denial not to see that war was inevitable. It was decision time for many people. The whole of 2022 has become a year of decisions about where to be, who to be, how to behave, what to make a priority, how to survive and stay sane, and so much more.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” (J.R.R. Tolkien)
37 days left till spring…
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Chandra Hageman says:
January 25, 2023 at 5:22 pm
“There are other forces at work besides the will of evil. I can put it no plainer than that you were *meant* to find the Ring, and *not* by its maker,” –Gandalf
In a letter, J.R.R.Tolkien spoke of “the Author of the story (by which I do not mean myself).”
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