In Tribute To

  George Orwell...

"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of

the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."--Orwell

George Orwell’s 1984 is the expression of a mood, and it is a warning. The mood it expresses is that of near despair about the future of man, and the warning is that unless the course of history changes, men all over the world will lose their most human qualities, will become soulless automatons, and will not even be aware of it.

  According to the FBI’s website the former #1 most wanted fugitive, Usama bin Laden, was wanted in connection with the deaths of over 200 Americans outside the USA.  If you help or protect any "terrorist" you are considered to be  a terrorist by our Federal government. Yet modern allopathy (medicine) BOTH kills over 780,000 Americans a year, making it the officially documented #1 killer of Americans from 2003 to 2004, AND is government protected. What does this make those who currently govern?

From the Back Cover

of the First Edition:

Psychology/Medicine/Religion/Politics/Crime.

Who was George Orwell?

Why is his greatest book, 1984, so important?

What does it really mean to be schizo-phrenic?

What is the true primary function of psychiatry?

What does American freedom really mean?

   In his classic, 1984, George Orwell selected certain features of his society as a basic skeleton, then fleshed political fiction over the bones. Many parallels between 1984 and the modern world have long been recognized. In Orwell's Warning: The Greatest Amerikan Paradox, Erik Blaire compares these features to the paradoxes of American politics, violence, and religion. Finding they are inseparable, he proposes that American freedom must therefore also be paradoxical. Armed with clues derived by examining American schizophrenia, obedience, disobedience, and paranoia, Blaire adopts as a factual skeleton the historical puzzle of Francisco Pizarro's conquering the mightiest empire of South America in one evening with a single boat load of men. Solving the puzzle, he then fleshes in fiction a working model for the most important, yet most neglected of Orwell's features, the central secret of Oceania. Blaire's conclusion: Any society which is founded on, and therefore conceals a central secret, must be characterized by a paradoxical or Orwellian state of freedom just like The Greatest Amerikan Paradox.

 ~ Kenneth Heath, Commercial Pilot, New Mexico

  "A fascinating look at Orwell... and psychiatry.  This book provides a unique look at George Orwell, as well as a fascinating look into one of the world's current greatest frauds - the psychiatric industry.  There is no other medical industry in the world that actually votes to decide what is and isn't a disease, rather than looking through a microscope. Blaire (a pseudonym) takes us on a journey from Orwell into the depths of the psychiatric industry, drugs such as Prozac, and a look at schizophrenia, obedience, disobedience, paranoia and mind control - and the state of current affairs.  It's a short, fast read, but nonetheless an eye opener. "

   "Other researchers that support the ideas presented in this book include Thomas Szasz, and Robert Whitaker's new book Anatomy of an Epidemic."

   "The worst of what things could become if we're not forever vigilant."

~ Jan Irvin, of GnosticMedia.com, author of "The Holy Mushroom"

   "It is compelling. ... It's a fascinating, meaningful, intellectual adventure. Well documented, too."

   "Awesome and powerful ending."

~ Carolyn Madison, Editing Consultant, R.J. Communications LLC

Questions? Comments? Criticisms?

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"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." --Orwell

WHO CONTROLS THE PAST

CONTROLS THE FUTURE

WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT

CONTROLS THE PAST

"Political language ....is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder

respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."--Orwell

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."--Orwell

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell

"Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies, all this is indispensably necessary."--Orwell's 1984

"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."--Orwell's 1984 (italics added)

"One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." —Orwell

“Any paradox must contain two ostensibly contradictory assertions--in this case, that the American past has been filled with violence, and that the stability and continuity of America’s vital public institutions have been extraordinary. How can we account for this?”

--Hugh D. Graham, The Paradox of American Violence:

A Historical Appraisal (1970)

“The American must go outside his country and hear the voice of America to realize that his is one of the most spectacularly lopsided cultures in all history. The marvelous success and vitality of our institutions is equaled by the amazing poverty and inarticulateness of our theorizing about politics. No nation has ever believed so firmly that its political life was based on a perfect theory. And yet no nation has ever been less interested in political philosophy or produced less in the way of theory. If we can explain this paradox, we shall have a key to much that is characteristic...in our institutions.”

--Daniel J Boorstin, Hidden History (1987)

“The secular [or non-religious] state came from the zeal of religion itself.”

--Garry Wills, Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990)

"American society was [from the start] riddled with contradictions. ... The Revolution was the source of its own contradictions. ... In many respects this new democratic society...[became] the very opposite of the one the revolutionary leaders had envisaged.” (italics added)

--G. S.Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992)

"I own property and DON'T own property at the same time."

--Marc Stevens, Adventures In Legal Land (2002)

"If the American paradoxes of politics and violence are inseparable, and the paradox of religion is inseparable from politics, then couldn't we consider all three as different faces of a single underlying state of contradiction? Either way, what can this possibly mean for American “freedom”?

--Erik Blaire, Orwell's Warning: The Greatest Amerikan Paradox (2009)

"This peculiar linking-together of opposites … is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society. ... These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are the deliberate exercises in doublethink. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. ... If equality is to be forever averted—if the High ... are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity." (italics added)

--Orwell's 1984

The command of the old despotisms was 'Thou shalt not.'
The command of the totalitarians was 'Thou shalt.'
Our command is 'Thou art.'

--O'Brien, agent of the Thought police in 1984



definition … noun … 1 : an act of determining or settling : as
a Roman Catholicism : an official statement concerning a matter of faith
b : a prescribed or official standard for a commercial product ...
c : the fixing or determination of social character …

--Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1986)

b + c = Human Resource,  formerly Personnel--

devolving into Homo Sapien Mitochondrion?

George Orwell’s 1984 is the expression of ... the warning ... that unless the course

of history changes, men all over the world will lose their most human qualities,

will become soulless automatons, and will not even be aware of it.

—Erich Fromm, from the 1961 Afterword of 1984 (italics/bold added)