"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Orwell’s Dystopian Future Is Almost Here: A Conversation With Glenn Greenwald
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2014-07-06 01:00
"So, a lot of people said, [our world is] not like ‘1984’ because not every single one of our emails is being read and or every one of our calls are being listened to because nobody could possibly be doing all that. But, as Greenwald rightly pointed out, in Orwell’s world, 'nobody actually knew whether they were being watched at all times. In fact they didn’t know if they were ever being watched.'”
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