Monday, June 01, 2009

Did he, now?

... Frail, cowardly Winston saved us. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

"I believe ... that totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere, and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences.”
Orwell's warning seems to me at least as apt today as when he issued it. I think we are as near today to a triumph of totalitarianism as at any time in my life. Naturally, I hope I am wrong. Unfortunately, today's intellectuals seem of a caliber distinctly inferior to those of Orwell's day.

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