Orwell Is Alive and Well and Living in Montclair, New Jersey and Hitler Is Now Fighting the Nazis
It began as a letter to the editor, in this case a weekly publication in Montclair, New Jersey. I wrote that short letter in response to the ongoing local display of the flag of the Ukraine and in it pointed out that the display violates protocols regarding proper use of the U.S. flag. I thought it would be dismissed as a crank letter but the editor chose to publish it and added a disclaimer that linked to a article titled “Montclair raises Ukrainian flag in Township Center to show solidarity.”
In this instance the local powers that be have clearly signaled their virtue as well as their skewed perception of what is actually happening in that region. I scanned the article quickly, playing particular attention to the dozen photographs of a recent candlelit vigil for the Ukraine. Most of the fervently posing and reverently photographed vigileers were, needless to say, wearing masks. I submit the following: falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. A population that lives in fear of a contagious disease never proven to exist has long ago lost the power of discernment. It simply cannot distinguish what is true from what is false, what is real from what is delusion.
Montclair and the rest of the state and country are, meanwhile, not alone in professing their deep and abiding love of the Ukraine. The ADL of all entities has officially gushed forth its great regard for that nation-state. I have contacted them regarding this but this was purely a formality. True, the Anti-Defamation League, formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, has been finding and condemning antisemitism, real and imagined, for over a century. But, in a stunning display of Orwellian doublethink the ADL now "condemns in the strongest terms Russia's unprovoked invasion (italics mine) of Ukraine..."
This is a remarkable reversal, given the ADL's well known position regarding the Ukraine's record of Nazi collaboration in the past as well as the presence of the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion now. On the subject of this Orwellian rewriting of history, another reality based outlet has published an article with this heading: "Israel lobby group ADL rehabilitates Hitler's accomplices in Ukraine." Yes, Hitler’s former accomplices are now doing battle with Putin who we are meanwhile told is the current Hitler of the new now. My friend, the Ukraine, the enemy of my enemy. But I really shouldn’t see anything unusual or untoward about these developments. We are living after all in interesting and Orwellian times.
In Chapter 9 of Part 2 of Orwell’s 1984, smack dab in the middle of the Hate Week festivities, Oceania abruptly switches its enemy. Oceania was at war with Eurasia and the war with Eastasia never existed. Poor overworked and underpaid Winston had to rewrite the history of the previous five years. I think Mr. Smith would have preferred these times. It is now infinitely easier to send whole swaths of annoying reality down the memory hole than it was in 1984.
Informed and rational people on the other hand, who still exist after all if only in scattered numbers, recognize this new Ukraine, established via the 2014 Maidan coup, for what it is. They know that the US political, military and financial creation and maintenance of this nation-state is yet another proxy war with Russia, as was the ten year Soviet-Afghan war that Zbigniew Brzezinski yearned for and helped to create. Furthermore, it is an act of aggression against Russia. Regardless of the machinations and hallucinations produced by corporate media, the U.S. is, far from fighting now or ever for anyone’s freedom and/or safety, merely doing what empires do.
Global Research, one of the first online, reality based news websites, published “Do Americans Really Want to Support the Neo-Nazi Filled Western Ukrainian Government?” The Nation published this a distant three years ago: "Neo-Nazis the and the Far Right are on the March in Ukraine." And The Times of Israel has decried the annual tribute in the Ukraine to Nazi collaborator and local hero Stepan Bandera. To name as they say but a few.
It recently republished "NATO-Exit inder Art. 13: Dismantle NATO, Close Down 800 Military Bases, Prosecute War Criminals." is a richly detailed and nuanced account of where we've been and been taken and where we're going. You could rightly call it, with apologies to Eduardo Galeano, "a primer for the looking-glass world." It includes a reference to an article bearing this heading: "3 reasons why America's massive nuclear arsenal actually makes the world safer."
In that article the author presents himself as "a father of two young children" and proceeds to tell us via a subheading of the article that "Nuclear weapons save lives." It's a somewhat folksy retelling of the military strategy known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
Nuclear weapons save lives.
Toxins are good for you.
Illnesses and deaths prove that the vaccines work.
Ignorance is strength.
The mendacity and the hypocrisy of this time and place are boundless, likewise the madness of crowds, the hypnosis of populations, and the continuous din of U.S.-Israeli-NATO moral posturing. “Liberal and progressive” Montclair has planted itself and its flags firmly on the wrong side of history, as well as reality itself, but meanwhile on the standard and safe side of American exceptionalism and expansionism. Unfortunately, its residents and the U.S. population at large can’t see this and doubtless never will. "It's easier to fool people than convince them that they've been fooled." Yes, it is far easier and has always been. Critical thought is all but dead in the U.S. and elsewhere. But George Orwell and his warnings and pronouncements are very much with us.
Jerry Bernini is a writer, editor and tutor in Montclair, New Jersey as well as an autodidact, and devout epistemologist. He can be reached via jtbernini@protonmail.com and https://twitter.com/JerryBernini
I mentioned Helen Buyniski https://www.rt.com/russia/557228-zelensky-clueless-taiwan-china-war/ and the correspondence I've had with her. I appreciate it just as I appreciate the effort that you put into this message. I respect her greatly as well but had a parting of the ways with her regarding the deadly virus that wasn't. I offered a comparison, albeit a flawed one, between those two polarities. I told her it reminded me of the LIHOP and MIHOP positions regarding the magical events of that Tuesday morning years ago in New York. It reminded me, but they're not really analogous. That was, of course, a matter of not possible versus impossible.
I realize that governments can and will kill with ruthless ease but I reject (in this case) the bio-weapon theory. And I have to admit there is a beautiful and elegant simplicity about destroying billions (All hail the Georgia Guidestones and of course Satan.) using the specter of an illness (See the drugging for nonexistent psychiatric disorders as an earlier and still ongoing pharmaceutical coup) instead of a real pathology and then directing billions to happily submit to injections of God knows what.
A week or so back I wrote this to Helen B:
"I’ve had no direct real world experience of a new and/or novel set of symptoms. I’ve also had no real world experience of the concentration camps known as the occupied territories. But we both know where and what they are as well as why. In any case, even if there were or has been a new (or novel) set of symptoms it isn’t clear, at least not to me, what caused it.
Governments have reigned for a long time and have rained all manner of mischief on the wavering millions and billions (of willing, helpful often enthusiastic victims and of course all the little Eichmanns) and the last few years have been a stellar sampling. My reading and intuition tells me that this recent operation was fully planned at least ten or so years ago. Its essence preceded its existence by centuries. But I don’t see any evidence of the lab leak theory or the deliberate release theory even as the means and motives and opportunities abound. "They" certainly could and would have enthusiastically done so but didn't. Lyme disease is another story of course and there have been two instances of it in my small corner of the world. And what the hell is Morgellons disease by the way?
I’m sure that contained within this cordial disagreement we’re having there’s a logical fallacy of some sort. But I don’t know its name.
Anyway, have patience with me. I am after all a high school dropout."
Regarding just one other point (I don't have the time or energy to respond to all) the wearers of masks, who are therefore not thinkers of thoughts and have lived too long and seen too much to waste my time and energy on any member of that non-thinking populations. They have accepted and embraced their role as domesticated animals.
I was never a happy guy or a social animal. But I have never felt the despair I feel now nor the loathing I now feel for the other. The only joy I occasionally feel come from knowing that "educated" middle class and even affluent/wealth Americans are gleefully destroying themselves and their precious offspring.
Great article, Jerry! It's clear how the narrative between Russia and Ukraine is being manipulated against public perception. What's more, I've been seeing calls in the media for Germany to send more war tanks to Ukraine which I find highly ironic and disturbing, as I'm sure you know why. I'll have much more to say about this in my next article, but I believe you should also continue writing even if you don't gain many readers! I'll likely share this article (and possibly others) you wrote in my future articles and you might gain a few more readers!