Gina Miller wrote:
>
> Saw the movie 1984.
> G~
>
> > I like it! Although I admit that the hard sell propaganda sounds a wee
> bit
> > scary. My "guardian," my "protector?" It will bring good things to me?
> > Did these guys ever read _Brave New World_ or _1984_?
> >
Ah, yes, and _Logan's Run_, and _Absolute Power_, and innumerable SF
novels based on the premise. Only dogs and slaves wear collars. I can
understand that a society that thinks people have no more rights than
dogs would result in us degrading to the least common denominator rather
than the greatest...
-- TANSTAAFLMike Lorrey
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." --- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
"A person who wants a society that is both safe and free, wants what never has been, and what never will be." --- Thomas Jefferson
"It's a Republic, if you can keep it..." --- Benjamin Franklin
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