Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been n…

George Orwell
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Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. ✨ George Orwell (1968). The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950
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