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A nifty letter from George Orwell on the trends toward totalitarianism and nationalistic social control, written a few years before he started writing 1984.<\/i><\/p>\n

'I must say I believe, or fear, that taking the world as a whole these things are on the increase. Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the Anglo-American millionaires and (c) all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national movements everywhere, even those that originate in resistance to German domination, seem to take non-democratic forms, to group themselves round some superhuman fuhrer (Hitler, Stalin, Salazar, Franco, Gandhi, De Valera are all varying examples) and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means. Everywhere the world movement seems to be in the direction of centralised economies which can be made to \u2018work\u2019 in an economic sense but which are not democratically organised and which tend to establish a caste system. With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible fuhrer.'<\/i><\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Kee Hinckley<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Will Burns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I think he nailed it in advance, especially about the anglo-american millionaires being strengthened.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He\u2019d Write 1984<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of the twentieth century’s notable men of letters \u2014 i.e., writers of books, of essays, of reportage \u2014 seem also to have, literally, written a great deal of letters.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nifty letter from George Orwell on the trends toward totalitarianism and nationalistic social control, written a few years before he started writing 1984. 'I must say I believe, or fear, that taking the world as a whole these things are on the increase. 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