XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science, alt.sci.physics.new-theories   
   XPost: sci.physics   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 1/15/2014 2:59 PM, Rod Speed wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   Hm.  Maybe I am.  On consideration it could be more accurate to say that   
   that Orwell was saying that the Bolsheviks are just as bad as the   
   fascists of the west.  The Francos, Hitlers and Mussolinis.   
      
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