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Peter C. Meilaender's avatar

“It takes an expert to make mistakes as big as that.”

Zing!

Greeley Miklashek, MD's avatar

Who cannot be impressed with the prescience of a thoughtful Brit who predicted the emergence of the techno-managerial class of wealthy fascists lodged in the very heart of America and ostensibly led by a madman with a limited intelligence and profoundly gullible but equally intellectually limited cadre of true believers? Thanks so very much for this reflection on George Orwell, who motored on even as he was dying from TBC. Few of us even begin to have that kind of courage. Have a blessed day.

Pamela davis's avatar

This is great stuff, but I want to subscribe...trying to figure out how.

The Orwell Foundation's avatar

Thank you - there is a link in the piece, or head to www.orwell.substack.com and click on the link in the top right corner of your screen.

71kramretaW91's avatar

Your entire political theory of scapegoating managers comes from a Trotskyite. Why? Because he was a Marxist Leninist and needed to scapegoat the state beaurocracy because he couldn't scapegoat the party. The Bolsheviks were the *victims* of the beaurocracy in this view - utterly pathetic as, just as in China, the state beaurocracy was completely captured and controlled entirely through criminal means and subterfuge.

You are a totalitarian.

Marcos Paulo Candeloro's avatar

There's a dirty secret in Western intellectual history that both the left and the right prefer to ignore: the modern identity-obsessed left—the one fixated on pronouns, microaggressions, and corporate "social justice"—wasn't born from Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky. It was born from a deliberate CIA program designed to neutralize real socialism and replace it with a harmless simulacrum.

https://substack.com/@ocandeloro/note/p-184905877?r=zvhi

Jack Lhasa's avatar

The sad thing is that Orwell was all that great and explaining in ways that people could connect to politics.

Ibra's avatar

Talk about beating the nail to its head... The nail has essentially become the head. Great read!

As I Please's avatar

I have been reading volume 3 of the collected essays and journalism and last week it was this column that I read

Chris Patten's avatar

Every day reinforces his continuing importance.

KW NORTON's avatar

The good old 1% self described elitists - lording it over the 99% majority for at least 20,000 or so years - give or take.

Ohio Barbarian's avatar

It would seem that "black-pilling" existed long before that particular idiom was created. Burnham sure has his intellectual descendants. A day never goes by that I don't hear a reason why we're all doomed and there is nothing that can be done to avoid our fate.

For a revolutionary, black-pillers and doomers are as useless as misanthropes.