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   From: noSPaM_pilechko_DeLETe@patmedia.net   
      
   Walter Traprock wrote:   
   > I didn't find 1984 revisited, or whatever it was called, by Peter Huber,   
   > very good, but, on the hand, I haven't actually read it, just flipped   
   > through it.  Maybe I should actually read it.   
      
   At least before you comment on it.   
   >   
   > For a much better book in this mode, you have to go to the past to The   
   > Scarlet Empire (1906) by David Parry.  It's an attack/reaction on Edward   
   > Bellamy's Looking Backward (1887).  Much more amusing, dramatic and   
   > better written than Peter Huber's trash.   
      
   Ah yes, the one you haven't read. Trash, is it?   
      
   > David Parry was head of some   
   > association of manufacturers, and, as you may guess, the nightmare world   
   > described by him had it's  origins in the "walking delegates" or some   
   > sort of union activity of the time, leading to the slippery slope of   
   > nightmare equality.   
      
   Shit, we don't want any of that equality round here, do we? You're going   
   to end up with all those damned commies, holding their truths to be   
   self-evident ...   
      
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