Because the novel 1984 wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual

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https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/benefits-world-hunger

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The Benefits of World Hunger

We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that nave view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour.
what the actual ****
BQ78
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FIFT:

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Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour and revolution.
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
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Wait...I thought being fat was beautiful and healthy now? What's going on?
MouthBQ98
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Slaves are made in such ways.
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titan
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Just shows the evil of totalitarian mindsets, which Orwell actually captured and so well understood.

And yet about half the country wants coercive socialism. Its one of the reasons maybe it should be literally half and only that.


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Bag said:

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/benefits-world-hunger

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The Benefits of World Hunger

We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that nave view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour.
what the actual ****
Every once in a while the global leftists lift up their skirt and show you who they really are.
AGinHI
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Bag said:

Hungry people are the most productive people...
Wait until the liberal intelligentsia latch hold and implement this idea.

And then when there is violence in the streets they'll say its mental health.
BCG Disciple
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World hunger and starvation is good for the world economy!

Murdering babies helps manage undesirable demographics and socio economic strata!
Darth Randy
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"About the author
George Kent
George Kent is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. He works on human rights, international relations, peace, development and environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition and children. He has written several books, the latest is Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food."

Starving and getting free labor out of kids. Hell yeah man where do I sign up for his class. This certainly doesn't discourage me from sending my kids to college. Nope.
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Who here actually read the article?
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For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.
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titan said:


Just shows the evil of totalitarian mindsets, which Orwell actually captured and so well understood.

And yet about half the country wants coercive socialism. Its one of the reasons maybe it should be literally half and only that.





…and to think 1984 wasn't his vision of some far off dystopia, it was a commentary on the way he saw the British government of 1948!
The flames of the Imperium burn brightly in the hearts of men repulsed by degenerate modernity. Souls aflame with love of goodness, truth, beauty, justice, and order.
titan
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Policy makers so wealthy as to be immune to economic forces and decline are a big problem themselves. The kind of leaders who `have a stake in it' or `one of the team' govern better.
Dro07
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link has the 404 now...
Dro07
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It shows up in the search but when you click on it its not found...

https://www.un.org/en/site-search?query=World+Hunger
agdoc2001
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Which part of that quote EXACTLY do you think redeems the author?
ABATTBQ87
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Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour.

Looks like the Japanese got their money's worth with these POWs



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agdoc2001 said:

Which part of that quote EXACTLY do you think redeems the author?
What about the article makes you think Kent is in favor of keeping people hungry?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that, given his previous works, he's in favor of ending world hunger.
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Professor Kent's approach centers on finding remedies for social problems, especially finding ways to strengthen the weak in the face of the strong. He works on human rights, international relations, peace, development, and environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition and children. His books include

  • The Political Economy of Hunger: The Silent Holocaust. New York: Praeger, 1984;
  • The Politics of Children's Survival. New York: Praeger, 1991;
  • Children in the International Political Economy. New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's, 1995;
  • Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005;
  • (editor) Global Obligations for the Right to Food. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008;
  • Ending Hunger Worldwide. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2011.
  • Regulating Infant Formula. Amarillo, Texas: Hale Publishing, 2011.

George Kent - IPRA Foundation
Waffledynamics
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Dro07 said:

link has the 404 now...
Textbook reason why it should have been thrown into archive.today immediately.

Same article. I'm running it through Archive right now.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297751609_The_benefits_of_world_hunger

https://archive.ph/lYzvr
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It's on archive.org

The Benefits of World Hunger
bmc13
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this is what they mean by "you will own nothing and be happy"
geoag58
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titan said:


Policy makers so wealthy as to be immune to economic forces and decline are a big problem themselves. The kind of leaders who `have a stake in it' or `one of the team' govern better.


That's why Trump will go down in history as one of the greats. In spite of his great wealth he truly is a man of the people. So far the evil left has convinced their idiotic sycophants that he is not. Fortunately hindsight has much better judgment.
titan
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What's run through `archive' mean? It almost sounds like someone is doing the needed idea
of just saving something that moment it appears. Is it any connection to Wayback Machine?
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geoag58 said:

titan said:


Policy makers so wealthy as to be immune to economic forces and decline are a big problem themselves. The kind of leaders who `have a stake in it' or `one of the team' govern better.


That's why Trump will go down in history as one of the greats. In spite of his great wealth he truly is a man of the people. So far the evil left has convinced their idiotic sycophants that he is not. Fortunately hindsight has much better judgment.
How exactly is he a "man of the people"?
AGinHI
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icrymyselftosleep said:

geoag58 said:

titan said:


Policy makers so wealthy as to be immune to economic forces and decline are a big problem themselves. The kind of leaders who `have a stake in it' or `one of the team' govern better.


That's why Trump will go down in history as one of the greats. In spite of his great wealth he truly is a man of the people. So far the evil left has convinced their idiotic sycophants that he is not. Fortunately hindsight has much better judgment.
How exactly is he a "man of the people"?
He cares about America and American interests and isn't some corrupt, lying, thieving, good-for-nothing career politician bending whichever the way the wind blows to maintain political power and hell-bent on "fundamentally transforming" our country.

That's how.
geoag58
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icrymyselftosleep said:

geoag58 said:

titan said:


Policy makers so wealthy as to be immune to economic forces and decline are a big problem themselves. The kind of leaders who `have a stake in it' or `one of the team' govern better.


That's why Trump will go down in history as one of the greats. In spite of his great wealth he truly is a man of the people. So far the evil left has convinced their idiotic sycophants that he is not. Fortunately hindsight has much better judgment.
How exactly is he a "man of the people"?



I started out 2016 election as a supporter of Ted Cruz. Before Ted Cruz bowed out and threw his support to Trump I saw a clip of Cruz as he approached some blue collar Trump supporters. The Trump supporters looked stone faced as Cruz tried to talk to them. When one of them finally looked down at Cruz and said ly'in Ted. I didn't know anything about Trump's candidacy but at that moment seeing their reaction I knew Trump was a serious candidate and where his support was coming from. These were everyday blue collar Americans and they supported Trump then and they still love Trump. Trump as much as he could did what he said he would do, never had a "Read my lips, no new taxes moment".
Waffledynamics
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titan said:


What's run through `archive' mean? It almost sounds like someone is doing the needed idea
of just saving something that moment it appears. Is it any connection to Wayback Machine?
It's a similar service to Wayback Machine, but WM has been caught deleting things before. Archive.Today does has not done that (that anyone knows about, at least).
Ags4DaWin
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Abundance has led a good proportion of people who have only an infinitesimal of the stress, concerns, and difficulties of their forebears to become narcissistic, lazy, pathologic, and delusional.

The best thing that could happen is a hardship which forces people to become grateful for the fruits their ancestors sowed for them.

Sometimes it's good to be reminded what hungry feels like.
BQ2017
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The sooner that everyone realizes that we're cattle and not only is there actually an elite class but they have a vested interest in exterminating or enslaving as many of us as possible, the sooner we can progress forward.
titan
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Do you know how that sounds? Presume it refers to WEF and similar. Wonder where it all began.

Have already concluded wrong side probably won World War I. Something has gone really awry in the nature of the elite global class. They used to have a sense of reciprocity.
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