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To: rlmorel

Thank you. I find it discouraging how much our world today looks like a blend between the worlds of 1984, Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, and other novels that were intended as warnings. The socialists that Orwell and Rand feared are using their works as blueprints.


30 posted on 10/09/2016 5:36:14 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Pollster1

Yes. Well said.


34 posted on 10/09/2016 5:45:36 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Pollster1

Yes...I have heard those exact sentiments along those lines of “...it was supposed to be a warning, not an instructional manual...”


35 posted on 10/09/2016 7:10:54 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Pollster1

Yes...I have heard those exact sentiments along those lines of “...it was supposed to be a warning, not an instructional manual...”

I have read “Atlas Shrugged”, “Animal Farm” and “1984” many times. I just finished listening to 1984 again recently (my eyes suck) and I found it even more disturbing than the other times I have read it.

Also, “The Gulag Archipelago” is an example of living, breathing, reality of what Orwell and Rand were concerned about, and it has (and is) coming true.


36 posted on 10/09/2016 7:15:32 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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