It was this date that George Orwell used to title his book 1984. The myth has been that George Orwell flipped the last two digits of the year that he wrote the book. However, he wrote 1984 in 1949. Notice that 1984 is 100 years after the founding of the Fabian Society. George Orwell as sending out a warning of what he saw society to be like under the influence of Fabian Socialism.
One would have thought that with the ensuing horrors of that day perpetrated under Adolph Hitler during the 1930s and early 1940s, the Fabians would have had second thoughts about their “Grand Design.”
However, after World War II, Fabian Socialist Bertrand Russell authored The Impact of Science Upon Society, in which he declared:
“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology…. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen….
There are, however, two powerful forces opposed to such a policy: one is religion; the other is nationalism…. Population can be kept from increasing…. Perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full…. [The world] authority should deal out the world’s food to the various nations in proportion to their population at the time of the establishment of the authority. If any nation subsequently increased its population, it should not on that account receive any more food.”
More info:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis209.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society
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