I highly recommend you buy a copy of this new book by John King before it goes underground.
For fear of getting arrested for aiding
and abetting a book entitled 'The Liberal Politics of Adolf Hitler' I
have deliberately not used Hitler's full name in the title of my
little piece. I would like to fend off the thought police for as
long as I can. I am only a third of the way into this book and Adolf
H....r and the N...s barely get a mention. It doesn't seem to be
really about the Austrian and his cult followers at all. And that is
a relief, as only recently a Scottish comedian was prosecuted for
making fun of such types.
In this Orwellian novel King
imagines the UK and the United States of Europe (USE) in the future. The USE has become a totalitarian dictatorship where
'power is fully centralised' and its citizens have absolute obedience
and devotion to this almighty establishment. A system of dependency
has been manipulated and molded into perfection.
In this 'New Democracy' history has
been re-written and appropriate news is daily fed to the devotees.
There are of course dissenters who live beyond the controlled areas.
They seem to be tolerated as long as they keep their mouths shut.
Dissenting voices are sought out and eliminated.
The real scary thing is that we are in
it. Yes even though the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016, in this
novel, London and other major British cities and still a core part of
it all. These USE zones are cordoned off from the hinterlands, where the common
folk still live in deprived early 21st Century conditions.
This novel by John King was published
in 2016 and I'm not sure if it was before or after the EU Referendum
of June 23rd. The implication here is that it doesn't
really matter: that that vote was really irrelevant. Almost two years
after the referendum we do remain uncertain if we are actually going
to be truly independent of Brussels anytime soon, or not. So perhaps
we do need to give King's projections serious consideration?
The good and the great are doing
everything within their colossal power and wealth to overturn the
democratic wish of the electorate. Censorship of speech and
expression is increasing by the day. Subtle, and not so subtle,
intimidation of dissenting voice is rife. Many people are keeping
their heads down and saying nothing for fear of surreptitiously
losing work and income. Or at least, for fear of getting sent to Coventry.
Okay, Orwell's '1984' masterpiece was
published in 1949. His predictions of a totally controlled super
state 35 years down the road were a wee bit off. I wonder though,
because his novels were so popular, did this make enough people aware
of what was going on and hence slow down the process?
King is playing it a bit safer and is not saying exactly when his projections might come to fruition. With the
pace of how things are moving in Europe, including Britain - towards
the destruction of individual nation states, distinct cultures and
independent mindsets - the aims of the EU might all fall nicely into place, sooner rather than later.
On the other hand though if King's
writings become as popular as Orwell's we might still be able to
preserve the UK as one of the last bastions of
democratic,free-thinking, independent society. Start spreading the
word.
The Liberal Politics of Adolf Hitler'
is available, for now, on Amazon.
Oh and by the way. Before I get to the
end of this novel I expect to learn about the exact connection that
Adolf H....r has to it all. I will let you know, so watch this space.
And if this space vanishes you will know they are on to me.
Willie D.....n
Intriguing. Any conclusions?
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