[MK] Better put Orwell on your summer reading list. [Arlo] Recall that in 1984, the people were kept in line by a government sold "war", their senses kept in check by the constant barrage of "fear the boogeymen" (not his words, of course). The constant "enemy", always at our doors, always one step away from raping your daughter and eating your puppy, the enemy, a subhuman, violent, non-reasoning group that seeks only to destroy YOU... support the state or else THE ENEMY WILL GET YOU!
Yes, many people should put Orwell on their summer reading list. I've posted this before, but since you mention Orwell, I thought I'd post it again. The quote is from Wikipedia, reproduced from "Collected Essays". ""My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions ... which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. ...The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere." (Orwell) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
