Future historians trying to explain how leftism came to mean child rape.
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It's a recurring problem throughout history, making its appearance right as any great society falls into decline like pressure nodes in acoustics. One might play a dirge on its harmonics.
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He did indeed. Huxley is closer to correct than Orwell, in my opinion, but Orwell uses plain language anyone can read and Huxley was a logophile.
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This. All of it.
Orwell thought the government would force its propaganda and monitoring devices on us. Huxley realized that people's preferences could be shaped so we'd want to buy them for ourselves. -
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The NSA is spying on you and here's the copious leaked documents that prove it. "But the media says Obama's great and Clapper didn't get fired for lying point-blank and under oath Congress, so it's all just lies cooked up by racists to smear the first black President."
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Neither Orwell nor Huxley predicted that the fourth estate in a democratic society would become its fifth column. Both still expected direct state propaganda departments. I guess they had to leave some horrible future truths for us to figure out through experiencing them.
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