Orwell & Nineteen Eighty-Four

[pynchonoid]

Speaking of doublethink -- from "I have no political
axe to grind" to....

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
 
> Our disagreement seems to be about whether modern
> Western democracies are
> mainly similar to Oceania, and to the totalitarian
> regimes on which it is
> modelled, or whether they are mainly different. 

> Having now read the Foreword in full (thanks E.) I
> find it unlikely that the
> mentions of "homeland" and "altering the landscape"
> (ix-x) refer to 9/11 or
> Bush at all. 






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