Free Republic

Note: This is the second in a line of essays, the first of which can be found at http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Collectivism.html. Yet it seems in the Party rhetoric that the survival of man (with that of the individual, as has been demonstrated in previous chains of reasoning, being a required precursor to that of the species) is an aim which the tyrants deliberately avoid. O'Brien concedes this as well. "Suppose that we choose to wear ourselves out faster. Suppose that we quicken the tempo of human life till men are senile at thirty. Still what difference would it make? Can you not...

Introduction It is seldom that a figure of extraordinary courage and cunning insight emerges into the literary arena and foretells aspects of society decades into the future, unpredictable within the eyes of mediocrity, but in the foreground of the visionary's insight. It is granted that none has been able to precisely describe a futuristic world, yet the proximity to which English author Eric Blair (more commonly identifiable by the pseudonym, George Orwell) had arrived to portions of society at present deserves commendation at the least. It is granted, of course, that the United States of America at present is of...