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From time to time I re-read 1984. I've been haunted by Orwell's passage about the proles. Ron Johnson's dismissiveness about not needing to know stuff reminded me of it again today. We do not face totalitarianism. At all.
But we do face another part of Orwell's future.
/1
"In reality very little was known about the proles. It was not necessary to know much. So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance." /2
"Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?" /3
That all seems a little too on the nose for me, on my more pessimistic days. I'd like to think we're more Norman Rockwell than Orwell's description, but Rockwell's visions of America have been replaced by the prolefeed of that Trump icon painter guy.

Enjoy your Sunday. /4x
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