another epigraph for GR

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Tue Apr 4 20:04:49 CDT 2000


"There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to
solve. One is how to discover against his will, what another human being is
thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a
few seconds without giving warning beforehand. In so far as scientific
research still continues, this is its subject matter. The scientist of
today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with
extraordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and
tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock
therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is a chemist, physicist, or
biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are
relevant to the taking of life."
--George Orwell, 1984



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