We saw the same thing in the United States during the Occupy demonstrations and in Turkey during the Taksim Square occupation.
George Orwell wrote the following in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four:
“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?”
Winston thought. “By making him suffer,” he said.
“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough.
Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and
not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing
human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own
choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is
the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers
imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and
being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it
refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The
old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is
founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage,
triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy everything.
Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from
before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and
between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a
child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no
friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs
from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual
formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our
neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty
towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There
will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There
will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have
no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and
ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All
competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston
— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and
constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill
of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want
a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.”
He paused as though he expected Winston to speak. Winston
had tried to shrink back into the surface of the bed again. He could not say
anything. His heart seemed to be frozen. O’Brien went on:
“And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be
there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be
there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that
you have undergone since you have been in our hands — all that will continue,
and worse. The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the
executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror
as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will
be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism."
A boot stamping on a human face - for ever. That is the future the rich have planned for us. It does not matter whether the President is Obama ad-Dajjal or Hillary the Harpy or some craven Bush clone: that will be our future.
And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
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