We are lazy today, so this is just a short excerpt from a preface to Animal Farm from 1972. It reads like it was written yesterday. The truth is only one. That's why normal people sound boring after a while, because how many times can you tell the Idiots that the Sun is hot?
“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you. Make a habit of imprisoning Fascists without trial, and perhaps the process won’t stop at Fascists. Soon after the suppressed Daily Worker had been reinstated, I was lecturing to a workingmen’s college in South London. The audience were working-class and lower-middle class intellectuals — the same sort of audience that one used to meet at...