Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is t…

George Orwell
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Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain. ✨ George Orwell (1961). 1984
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