I often wonder how many people actually read 1984 and what the “war is peace” slogan means. Before I read the book a few times, I thought it was trying to change the meaning of words and mixed in with the newspeak concept… but read the book carefully you see it’s different (1/)
https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1418589559760343042
The book says that governments discovered that while you were at war with an external enemy, internal dissent was quashed, so the (external) war is (internal) peace… and vice versa (2/)
Back to real life and the governments have discovered that the war on Covid is internal peace on a lot of fronts… “why is our healthcare system a shambles?” “Look, Covid, unprecedented times, save the nhs” (3/)
Also pandemics are National emergencies so you get to dust off the “control of media” legislation to quash any investigation. A virus is a much better target of the war than EastAsia or Eurasia ever could be (4/)
And when the steam is running low, just tap the never ending supply of minor variations to bring out the “beta delta epsilon” variant and you don’t even need to pretend we were never at war with plain old delta variant (5/5)
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
