1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[Dave Monroe]

Sheesh ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> But just because I read it in the way I do doesn't
> mean I swallow it for a moment - the exorbitant
> generalisations and bizarre (and actually quite
> offensive when you come to think about it)

When YOU come to think of it, maybe ...

> historical comparisons, the mealy-mouthedness and
> snide put-downs which are concealed therein, the
> unwillingness to say straight out what he actually
> means - it's facetious and smarmy and disrespectful.
> It's a major cop-out: all the "maybes" and
> "not necessarilys" and "could be argueds". Chomsky
> Lite.

Note that it's typically those "cop-outs" around which
readings rotate here.  On a noose in the wind ...

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