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Things of the Past

Doubleplusgood -- Orwellian Chocolate "Rationing" is Here

By Mike King

*Editor's Note: Obviously, chocolate products are still readily available. The use of the term "rationing" here refers to how producers are being squeezed into limiting the amount of actual cocoa / chocolate in their products.
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In George Orwell's dystopian classic novel (and film), "1984," the frustrated protagonist, Winston Smith, sees, senses and remembers what the bewildered and brainwashed normies all around him cannot. He recalls a time when things were much different in the dilapidated, impoverished, soulless city of London, in the province of Airstrip One, in the mega-nation of Oceania. Years ago, goods had been plentiful and of good quality. Yet the trumpeted announcements from the ubiquitous two-way "telescreens" constantly proclaimed how the quality of life was always getting better than before -- and the neurotic normies of Oceania actually believed it and repeated it!

The idea that once plentiful basics like chocolate, for example, were now being rationed by the all-powerful State of "Big Brother" struck Winston as odd. Even more upsetting to him was the manner in which the authoritative-sounding telescreen talking heads could so brazenly manipulate the news of the chocolate rationing from one day to the next -- putting a positive spin on something that was actually a bad thing. Orwell describes the mass madness -- which regular readers of the RHC can surely relate to in the present day:

“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. ... Was he (Winston), then, alone in the possession of a memory?”

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The parallels to the absurd official explanations for contemporary events -- (think 9/11, ObamaMania of 2008, Covid-19 masking, "social distancing" & vaxxing, "Stand With Ukraine," or any of the other "latest things" of our times) -- are obvious. But never did this literature-loving / chocolate-loving "autist" here foresee that Orwell's passages about "chocolate rations" -- lines which so struck me upon reading 1984 during college days -- would become my own Winston-like observations one day, in real life!

As the numbskulled normies at the lunch table excitedly repeat the "doubleplusgood" news of the chocolate ration increase (to 20 grams), the introspective, poker-faced Winston Smith clearly recalls that the ration had just been DECREASED from the previous 30 grams -- but he dares not speak of it.

Over the course of just the past two years, only a chocolate-lover with dead taste buds -- or sleep-walking through life in normified fashion -- could have failed to notice the gradual diminution and then disappearance of chocolate flavor in many of the American mass-market classics that we all grew up on. I recently noticed this at a local Dairy Queen -- where a small chocolate-vanilla twist (priced at a ridiculous $3.60 now) tasted neither of vanilla nor of chocolate. It was like eating plain yogurt with the texture of ice cream and barely a remnant of flavor.

To satiate my insatiable post-meal "sweet tooth," I've tried many of my chocolate favorites from childhood -- and ended up disappointed at the noticeable, undeniable plainness of one brand after another after another. In addition to DQ, the following chocolate brands (and many others, I'm sure)  -- for all practical  purposes -- no longer exist in America:

• Oreo Cookies
• Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Chips Ahoy Cookies
• Kit Kat Bar
• Hershey Bar
• Milky Way
• Hershey Kisses
• M & M's
• Reese's Cup (both the chocolate & the peanut butter are barely detectable)
• Ding Dongs
• Yodels
• Devil Dogs
• Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate Mix
• Olive Garden Tiramisu (both the chocolate & the coffee are barely detectable)
• Chocolate doughnuts at Dunkin' Donuts

Could it be that the capabilities of this baby-boomer's taste receptors are diminishing? Or might that exceptionally nasty flu or pneumonia that shut down RHC / ANYT for a whole week last November have damaged the aging sensors? Well, upon testing those hypotheses at the locally legendary Maria's Bakery of Saddle Brook, NJ and San Remo's Italian Imports in Totowa, NJ -- let me assure you that all of the chocolaty stuff at those joints tastes as delightfully decadent as ever --- but at a price!  Better brands like Lindt and Ghiradelli are still good too.

1. Kit Kat is now flavorless Shit Kat. // 2. Olive Garden's Tiramisu (Italian for "Pull-Me-Up") is now Tiramiju ("Pull-Me-Down"). The Coffee & Cocoa & Cheese Cake there was once on par with that of family-owned Italian restaurants. Now, it is flavorless. // 3. DQ Twist -- neither chocolate nor vanilla in any detectable quantity.

So then, what manner of Orwellian mischief has happened to have now deprived the general public of affordable access to the former staple of real chocolate -- and essentially made so many familiar name-brand treats go extinct? Answer: Through the unceasing issuance of debt-based currency -- (created to pay back the previous loans of debt-based currency which had to be created in order to  pay back the previous loans which .... repeat for 100 years) -- the Federal Government / "Federal Reserve" complex has criminally debased our currency. Chocolate -- and all other commodities -- are thus, in essence, being invisibly taxed at exorbitant rates. Having already raised prices as far as the getting-poorer-by-the-day general public can bear -- mass-market producers have resorted to "shrinkflation" by noticeably reducing the chocolate (and vanilla, and sugar, and coffee, and paper etc) content of their products.

The only difference between the 1984 scenario and 2023 is that, in the former, the chocolate ration was directly state-imposed -- whereas today, the "rationing" is indirectly assessed via the parasitic oppression of the market. State-Imposed vs State-Caused ---- a difference without a distinction.

Have any of "youse guys" also noticed the death of chocolate? Or, like Winston Smith, am I alone here? The really Orwellian part of this farce is that the major chocolate companies are all still in business. Astonishingly, this indicates that millions of oblivious buyers continue to regularly consume these overpriced flavorless substances while pretending that they are still enjoying chocolate -- much like how they were induced into pretending that there was an actual "pandemic" going on from 2020-2022.

Think it, Winston. Think it!

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Schemer's wholly-owned government, wholly-owned stock market, and wholly-owned central banks have engorged him, while making Orwell's "chocolate rations" of '1984' a reality for the rest of us in 2023. The macro-economic dynamics of the colossal scam are explained in a fun and easy to understand allegory, BANCAROTTA , by yours truly.

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