• hector@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    Something us fundamently wrong with people, prior generations would never surrender their right without realizin or caring in prior generation. The entire west is going dull 1984.

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      1 hour ago

      1984 seems based on Orwell’s experiences working for the British government at the time, so in a very real sense the west has been that way for a while

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        He got disillusioned volunteering with the socialists in the spanish civil war. Hemimgway too.