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kpete

(71,984 posts) Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:10 PM Jan 2018

Orwell Tried To Warn Us...

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Orwell Tried To Warn Us... (Original Post) kpete Jan 2018 OP

No, Orwell never imagined anything as irrational and dysfunctional as this. Towlie Jan 2018 #1

Kick appalachiablue Jan 2018 #2

Todays world is a mix of Orwell, Huxley and Mencken. roamer65 Jan 2018 #3

Great cartoon Gothmog Jan 2018 #4

Towlie

(5,324 posts)

1. No, Orwell never imagined anything as irrational and dysfunctional as this.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:16 PM

Jan 2018

The Inner Party was extremely evil, but it had a clear agenda.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes/qt0324910

Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.

Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?

Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.