2024-08-27
Yes, it's true, he was another "Blair" - Eric Arthur Blair, no relation as far as I know to Tony.
In his own time he like us had an "awakening", although his was very personal and national whereas ours is both personal and global in nature. Nevertheless with his writings, especially his famous "Animal Farm", he laid the foundation for our understanding of how the authorities of the day through their surreptitious manipulation of language, manage to guide society in a direction that they would not choose to go, if the people did but understand the destination.
All wars rely on this manipulation in order to populate the armies with "willing" cannon-fodder.
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