rigors the people
undergo justified in
concrete achievement

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, ‘I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so’. Probably, therefore, he will say something like this:

‘While freely conceding that the Soviet régime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigours which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.’

From the essay, Politics and the English Language as published in Inside the Whale and other essays by George Orwell (This selection first published in Penguin Books as Selected Essays 1957).

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.

No kidding.

How is our current situation explained?

While freely conceding that the American régime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the American people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.

who wants to get rich
falls into a trap of
ruin and destruction

Based on the Bible verses found at 1 Timothy Chapter 6, verses 9 and 10 where it says:

Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Hey look, I’d like to be rich.

I tell the story often of the actor/director Orson Welles being asked what he would do if someone gave him an ungodly amount of money.

“Give it all away,” Welles responded immediately in a loud, defiant voice.

There was a pause and in a lesser, quieter voice, Welles said, “… my actions would probably be different if someone actually gave me an ungodly amount of money.”

In the story of Fiddler on the Roof, our hero Tevye asks, “Would it spoil some vast eternal plan?“

I think about that man in currently in office and his answer seems to be that, him being rich, IS the vast eternal plan.

I think about those folks who support that man currently in office and there answer seems to be that him, that man in office, being rich, IS the vast eternal plan.

And, if he can that rich, so can I and the longer he can work an increasing his wealth and what ever the steps are he needs to increase his wealth is okay by them as well as okay for them to work at increasing their wealth as well.

The effort to increase their wealth can be wrapped in all sorts of wrappers depending on current events.

They canwrap in a religous wrapper.

They can wrap in a patriotic wrapper.

Than can remove the wrapper and call it a money grab for all they care and for all anyone seems to be able to do anything about it.

But understand.

Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Just before these verses is Verse 7.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.