When we are ready to give up all of our civil liberties out of paranoia and declare perpetual war, Orwell will be remembered as an oracle, and the terrorists will have won.
orwell wrote science fiction-----he did not evaluate the current world situation
Isaac Asimov-----IMHO -----had psychosexual issues. What do your
civil liberties have to do with the fact that there is a war going on-----now?
There has never been freedom during time of war. Perpetual war is the perpetual cessation of freedom. If you have to ask how our civil liberties have been abandoned since 9/11, then you ought to be paying attention.
I have been paying attention. I do not feel oppressed. Even as I struggled to get around in New York City-----since I worked at various place in the course of a week and even in the course of a day-------during the week following the bombing of the WORLD TRADE CENTER-----I did not feel OPPRESSED by the government---or the cops who forced me to take complicated DETOURS ------is somebody oppressing you? We are in a war-------when I see practice drills on going----I
do not feel oppressed -------we got problems------even TORNADOES happen in
the USA-------civil defense is vital. My mom was a young woman during world
war II. I heard about RATIONING------even of SHOES!!! So I asked my mom
------"how did it go-----did you feel deprived"? She answered ----"I did not feel
a difference-------I did not have a whole lot of shoes before the war either----there
were some positives----you could wear stocking with 'runs'-----and feel
PATRIOTIC" she did not starve either.