tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post1195252694426935625..comments2024-03-28T14:32:19.334+00:00Comments on Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: Obama’s deadly hand revealedPastoriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-26132446246566134222009-06-29T18:19:20.240+01:002009-06-29T18:19:20.240+01:00It was in Spain that Orwell realized the imminence...It was in Spain that Orwell realized the imminence of totalitarianism as only a person who has seen its advancing tentacles up close can. For Nazi Fascism and its senior counterpart, the Bolshevik Terror, were so fantastically brutal and corrosive that intellectuals in the West <b>treated it with emotional disbelief</b>, whatever credence their intellects might give it. The sheer effrontery of totalitarianism assisted its advance. The cries that “it can’t happen here”; “surely that’s impossible” lulled people in a false sense of security. Far worse was the delusion of thinking that one could refuse to go with the Gestapo or the NKVD when they finally turned up. CS Lewis wrote in the Screwtape Letters that the devil’s greatest trick was to vanish. When Orwell returned to Britain after almost dying on the Spanish battlefield, he went around the country debating against pacifists. His hardest problem was to convince them that the devil was real.<br /><br />Belmont Club "The Molten Calf" June 27, 2009Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com