Doolittle on Orwell on the War That Will Last Forever
Jerome Doolittle at Bad Attitudes (who has been on quite a roll lately) offers a frighteningly apt extended quotation from 1984: Doublethink. A small excerpt:
It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.
Those who forget Orwell are condemned to experience him IRL, I guess.
