tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post335557544482650403..comments2024-03-18T19:36:10.480-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Orwell on KiplingAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-42242553873558273432020-03-18T22:26:29.539-04:002020-03-18T22:26:29.539-04:00Good heavens!
No one, in our time, believes in an...Good heavens!<br /><br /><i>No one, in our time, believes in any sanction greater than military power; no one believes that it is possible to overcome force except by greater force. There is no ‘Law’, there is only power. I am not saying that that is a true belief, merely that it is the belief which all modern men do actually hold.</i><br /><br />It is downright uncanny how Orwell, writing in 1942, managed to deftly put the pin right in the center of today's political class.Thos.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09562836622083001506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-51454465996190532072020-03-18T20:10:00.454-04:002020-03-18T20:10:00.454-04:00The problem with 1984 being prescient is too many ...The problem with 1984 being prescient is too many people think it's an instruction manual.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-42011840710250303292020-03-18T19:21:35.096-04:002020-03-18T19:21:35.096-04:00Maybe Lewis liked the mythic approach better than ...Maybe Lewis liked the mythic approach better than the realistic? jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com