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Michael Moynihan On Orwell And Conspiracies

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The Resistance to Change

By 2023, 40% of inhabitants of London would not have been born in the United Kingdom. I think that's a kind of demographic transition and cultural transition so fast that I think George Orwell would be horrified. But at the same time, you can understand resistance to change and grief at loss of the familiarity of things. And it doesn't always have to be racial. In Sweden there was a cordon sanitaire around discussing immigration in the Swedish media. It was an amazing thing. We wish we had a European system where many different views were represented.

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