"All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice."
The TPP world is coming.
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magnora ago
When we read the book in our English class, I argued with the teacher that the world in 1984 would be impossible in the real world because people would wake up and notice how bad things had gotten and cease to tolerate it.
Now that I'm an adult, I see that most people tolerate a lot more things than I do. People are really afraid to seek the truth because of the social consequences, and that was something I never anticipated as a highschooler.