"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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ConfirmedBias ago
Orwell, a few years before publishing 1984.
http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/zamyatin/english/e_zamy (spoilers)
I was thinking about finishing up with The Anarchists Cookbook and seeing how long until I disappear.