ThomWV
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Tue Mar-11-08 07:57 PM
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Your Evening Orwell, for Tuesday the 11th |
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Edited on Tue Mar-11-08 07:58 PM by ThomWV
1984, Part II, Chapter 9
"The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the like, and have even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to some extent. But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable. Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation. And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. "
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Tue Mar-11-08 08:07 PM
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may be the most important book in the world right now and the most under read.
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Tue Mar-11-08 08:19 PM
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3. I think it may be the most important political theory book in the last 100 years (n/t) |
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Tue Mar-11-08 08:14 PM
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your evening Goldstein???
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