Eh – V for Vendetta was a watered-down, dumbed-down appropriation of Orwell’s 1984 told from Hollywood’s left-leaning perspective. The original novel, of course, was a warning about where the Soviet style of socialism would ultimately lead.
Obviously, the point can be broadened to socialism in general, as we are learning in our own country. We aren’t in that dystopian world yet, and we aren’t getting there the way Orwell envisioned, but his novel was disturbingly prescient. Instead of viewscreens in our apartments, we have IPhones and the Internet. Instead of direct government control of the media, we have a media that voluntarily colludes with government. Even our history is being twisted, with incovenient truths left out and facts deliberately misinterpreted, all to prop up the left’s politically acceptable dogma.
Fortunately, the bubbles are beginning to burst, the 2008 crisis resulting from government pressure on banks to offer mortgages to unqualifying individuals in the name of “equality” being the first of many. The hyper-inflated education bubble of our public colleges and universities is next. Ultimately, the fiscal solvency of the entire country is in danger because of our commitments to programs like Medicare and Social Security far exceed our ability to pay. The death throes of the left will not be pretty. It’s too bad the rest of us have to suffer along with the people who voted for it.
