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[Irish_Thatcherite]

*ET sees Darks*

[TheBrotherhood]

"I know, but he seemed to gradually renounce certian aspects of socialism as time passed, had he lived a couple more decades, he would surely have been a full blown conservative!!"

I agree.

However, I disagree that 1984 was about communism. It was a warning. Awarning about the future of man and of Western Culture.

[Darksheare]

LOL.
That'd make him want to phone home.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

How does that work?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

*ET with a dial-up connection*

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I think Orwell foresaw the EU!! LOL

[Das Outsider]

I know, but he seemed to gradually renounce certian aspects of socialism as time passed, had he lived a couple more decades, he would surely have been a full blown conservative!!

No more than Christopher Hitchens renounced his Marxism after the Soviet Union collapsed. The Right has a strange love affair with both men. If they understood what either of the two stand (or stood) for, they'd start looking for love in other places.

[Darksheare]

Well, to italicise stuff you still need to use html.
Otherwise you just type and hit 'return' to make a new line.

[Darksheare]

Yikes.
That would be bad.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Maybe.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Well, to italicise stuff you still need to use html. Otherwise you just type and hit 'return' to make a new line.

Ah, I see.

[Darksheare]

I still goof up html, so I rarely use it.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

*ET waiting for download 5000 light years away on a 45kbps modem*

[Das Outsider]

However, I disagree that 1984 was about communism. It was a warning. Awarning about the future of man and of Western Culture.

Communism was just the agent of the time. Orwell could accurately portray what he had not seen; that is, what the internal structure of the Soviet Union was like. Other intellectuals, like George Bernard Shaw, had made trips to the U.S.S.R., raving about how good things were upon return.

Oceania could be any totalitarian regime. Whoever controls the past controls the future. Sounds like liberal academia, doesn't it?

[Darksheare]

ET downloading a 100Mb update from 5000 light-years away on a 45kbps modem.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Yes, all the < P >s and < I >s can be confusing.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

*ET sees 404 on his monitor*

[Darksheare]

Yes.
I remember seeing threads where there were twenty posts or so in a row with nothing but 'Bold off', 'bold off', 'Bold OFF!', 'Why won't the %#!@ bold turn OFF?!'
And then there were tags to make things blink, and do marquee scrolling.

[Darksheare]

ET and the Invalid page request.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Communism was just the agent of the time. Orwell could accurately portray what he had not seen; that is, what the internal structure of the Soviet Union was like. Other intellectuals, like George Bernard Shaw, had made trips to the U.S.S.R., raving about how good things were upon return.

Methinks George Bernard Shaw didn't realise he got a guided tour!!