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   Rod Speed to David Johnston   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   16 Jan 14 08:59:00   
   
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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   David Johnston  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
      
   >>>>>>> George Orwell predicted the surveillance society.   
      
   >>>>>> But got it utterly wrong with lots of the detail.   
   >>>>>> We didn't even see much of Animal Farm in the west.   
      
   >>>>> Since Animal Farm was a depiction of the history   
   >>>>> of the Soviet Union, why would you expect to?   
      
   >>>> It clearly was warning that that might happen in the west too.   
      
   >>> I don't find that clear at all.  The message I got was   
   >>> "The Bolsheviks are just as bad as the capitalists of the west".   
      
   >> In fact nothing even remotely like the capitalists of the west on that.   
      
   > I perceive that you know nothing about Orwell's politics.   
      
   You're wrong and even you can use groups.google and see that   
   I actually know a hell of a lot more about that than you do.   
      
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