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Interview: Dr. David Lowenthal on Orwell's 1984

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The Dangers of Totalitarianism

I would say that more harm has been done to the world by John Locke than by any other philosopher of puff, people like bacon. And the reason is this, that the whole idea of natural rights, which in a way has its own, you know, resounding feeling in us. That notion immediately separates people from each other. We are not born as individuals, we're born as part of a social unit, at least the family. You can understand half the old psychological,. that was a lot of country I just do that. People being placed on their own, people being lonely. Now this is the very source of those who at some point are going to succumb to totalitarianism because

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