1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[Malignd]

<<"But the unseemliness of an argument--let alone a
prophecy--in the heat of some later emergency, does
not necessarily make it wrong" (x).  The previous
couple of sentences are nigh-unto-satirical.  "Those
of fascistic disposition" might be a bit strong (or
maybe not ...), but "or merely those among us wo
remain all too ready to justify any government action,
whether right or wrong," is pretty self-explanatory. 
This is all pretty straightforward, and
straightforwardly critical, not at all like the
reading below ... >>

Either I'm missing something, or you are, or this
writing is murky and ambiguous enough to persuade both
readings.

Where do you find satire?  I get no sense of that.

I read and reread and reach the same conclusion.

You seem to take this as my beating of Pynchon with a
stick; it's no more than my best guess after what he's
trying to say.






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