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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   David Johnston  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
   >> David Johnston  wrote   
   >>> Rod Speed wrote   
   >>>> David Johnston  wrote   
   >>>>> 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.   
      
   >>>> That isnt really what Animal Farm was saying either.   
      
   >>>> None of those were ever silly enough to   
   >>>> try claiming that everyone was equal.   
      
   >>> The humans DON"T say that everyone is equal.  That's what the pigs say,   
   >>> but they lie.   
      
   >> I didn't say anything about who said it.   
      
   > Then you didn't say anything relevant.   
      
   Says he carefully deleting what was relevant, again.   
      
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