"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.
Unfortunately, I agree on all counts.
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