1984 Foreword

[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
> 
> I like Fromm's Afterword because it deals with weapons of mass destruction,
> politics and doublethink.

Wonder why Fromm would bring those things up. 

_1984_ is not easy reading. Doublethink & Newspeak are a bit insane. The
Appendix is helpful, I guess,  but I don't like the fact that the book
has an Appendix to explain Newspeak. 



"It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their
own children." 

The dollar the currency in _1984_

every week around 30 bombs fall on London. 

And, who is dropping them? 

The USA? Iraq, on its citizens?