
Interview: Dr. David Lowenthal on Orwell's 1984
The New Thinkery
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The Importance of Relativism
There's nothing worse for a regime based on natural rights of man, God given rights, then that kind of relativism. In short, we know too much. It's very hard to have a healthy society. There's always thinking about not only its past, but its present and other societies and what they're like. And it loses its perspective as a unit as a unit ferry has to dwell in human life. You see somebody in the street who was wearing a mask. Get that mask on. I'll report you. What is this?
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