Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Terrance]

Malignd wrote:
> 
> <<as economic processes and political structures
> developed, the priest lost much of his importance
> because the SYSTEM couldn't rely on priest to be
> adequate instruments of control ...>>
> 
> Failure of priests to be adequate instruments of
> control has more to do with little boys and sheep than
> with economic processes.

Not if sheep are ever blessed with the gift of speech.