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[Henry M]

Gee, is Animal Farm worth a re-read at this point in history?  Read it
so many years ago that I remember characters, plot, and subtext, but
not style.

AsB4,

Henry Mu
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jude Bloom wrote:
> in fairness, isn't dehumanization an old process?  hard to imagine
> depersonalizing people more so than in the gulag or the auschwitz.  martin
> ami's semi-recent "koba the dread: laughter and the twenty million," a cool,
> odd little book on "the russian experiment" and stalin, details pretty well
> how dehumanized people can become under the fist of the state.  as in, not
> human any more: animal.
> also i find william gibson interesting on the subject of corporations
> becoming entities with "rights" approaching those of real humans.... to the
> point where nation-states become obsolete as the world switches to rule by
> corporation, built on (as i read it in gibson) the japanese zaibatsu
> system.....
> ~ j