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“Bully Worship has become a Universal Religion” (George Orwell Poster)
Posted on 06/26/2012 by Juan Cole
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And he was speaking during what we consider the golden era of left liberalism, no?
Funnily enough, this was probably written around 1947-8, when the Declaration of Human Rights was agreed upon.
Review of Bertrand Russell’s Power: A New Social Analysis in Adelphi, January 1939.
george orwell – meets plato
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big brother
doesn’t watch you
you watch it
how would you know
if you’ve seen the truth
if you never got dragged up
from that cave
images cast on the far wall
sounds in time with the play
in front of our eyes
didn’t notice being
tied down – fettered
in this state – we stay
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