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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Orwell On Contemporary American Government
“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial. That is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.” — George Orwell.
Two vital Orwellian documents: On Shooting an Elephant and Homage to Catalonia. Everything else he ever wrote makes sense in terms of those two texts...
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Two vital Orwellian documents: On Shooting an Elephant and Homage to Catalonia. Everything else he ever wrote makes sense in terms of those two texts...
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