The purpose of this all-encompassing program of psychological warfare is to bewilder the mind of the average citizen. Orwell understood as well as anyone that in the battle between Totalitarianism and freedom, no one can afford to stand aside. The fate of each and every one of us hangs in the balance. Don't let it happen. It depends on you.
In 1940 George Orwell wrote: “Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships – an age in which freedom of thought will be at first a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is going to be stamped out of existence.” George Orwell, Inside the Whale George Orwell’s dystopian novel […]
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