Remember the introduction to ANIMAL FARM?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

As Chomsky noted:

"
In the introduction to Animal Farm said, England is a free society, but it's not very different from the totalitarian monster I have been describing. He says in England unpopular ideas can be suppressed without the use of force. Then he goes on to give some dubious examples. At the end he turns to a very brief explanation, actually two sentences, but they are to the point. He says, one reason is the press is owned by wealthy men who have every reason not to want certain ideas to be expressed. And the second reason—and I think a more important one—is a good education. If you have gone to the best schools and graduated from Oxford and Cambridge, and so on, you have instilled in you the understanding that there are certain things it would not do to say; actually, it would not do to think. That is the primary way to prevent unpopular ideas from being expressed.

The ideas of the overwhelming majority of the population, who don't attend Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge, enable them to react like human beings, as they often do. There is a lesson there for activists."

http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag/viewArticle/16101

[BOG PERSON]

1. T.S. Eliot said no to 'Animal Farm'

A newly-released letter shows that US-born poet T.S. Eliot refused to publish George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' for its Trotskyite politics.

The 1944 letter, revealed by Eliot's widow Valerie, shows that Eliot dismissed the novel while he was director of British publishers Faber and Faber.

Although Eliot praised the book's "good writing" and "fundamental integrity", he said that Orwell's view "which I take to be generally Trotskyite, is not convincing."

"We have no conviction that this is the right point of view from which to criticize the political situation at the current time," said the Noble-Prize winning poet.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=90372§ionid=3510212

[TBF]

2. Now "Animal Farm" is thrown under the bus. I think I've seen it all. n/t

[Kid Dynamite]

3. Not germane to OGs point

which is a bit cavalierly made, but read BOG PERSON's citation again.

"We have no conviction that this is the right point of view from which to criticize the political situation at the current time," said the Noble-Prize winning poet.

And, no, I don't care about Eliots viewpoint

[maryf]

4. There is a lesson there for activists

K&R