“The threat is here; the time Orwell warned about is now.”
It never ceases to amaze & terrify me that in under 80 years, less than a human lifetime, we have allowed the putrid, lethal stench of fascism to return.
In the countries that destroyed it, in those that were destroyed by it, & in many others seemingly inspired by it.
And the populists will exploit the looming disaster of climate change to stoke hatred for their own narrow, short-term power & profit.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/07/orwellian-nightmares-george-orwell-rage-culture-rewriting-1984
Mark McCaughrean /
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2023-10-07 11:08:53
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