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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry
If you get that from it you're missing Orwell's point.
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Well like I said, I haven't read it despite meaning to. I always thought that the book was about Orwell's disillusionment with communism, and points out the fallacies thereof during the book, about how it doesn't create an utopia of happiness and equality.
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Originally Posted by andyl
And, Punky, Clairey's point about an ever-changing enemy judging by your riposte. We are talking about the same book aren't we?
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If you honestly believe that the UK government deliberately causes a semi-state of animosity with other nations, to scare citizens into obedience and servitude to the Government, then you are far more cynical and paranoid than I.
For one thing looking at the protests and the current feeling of people, UK and abroad it doesn't seem to be working.