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4984036 No.4984036[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

So what was his final conclusion on politics and the world?

>> No.4984067

>>4984036
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-shlDXKO4

On his death bed.

>> No.4984073

>reduce everything down to a twitter post

>> No.4984079

Old men. Running the world.

>> No.4984084

>>4984067
Well fuck.. That wasn't very pleasant.

>> No.4984113

aldous huxley was right

>> No.4984122

>>4984067

Not actually him, obviously, but based on an actual interview, I gather.

>>4984036

tl;dr, 'Democratic Socialism as I understand it', for whatever that's worth. But he was certain that we were all super-fucked and that global politics would quickly coalesce into three vying super-states a la 1984.

>> No.4984124

>>4984113
But so was Orwell. Same shit different methods.

>> No.4984125

Basically, he hated Christianity with a secret passion.

>> No.4984136

>>4984125

Not all that terribly secret, actually.

>people who haven't read all four volumes of his essay and correspondence presuming to opine

>> No.4984350

>>4984136
I'm only talking about 1984, I guess.

>> No.4985087

>>4984113
the thing about huxley is the methods used by the government in Brave New World, a dystopian world, are the same methods the society in the Island use to create a utopia.

>> No.4985099

It doesn't matter because the world is infinitely more complex than any one man will ever be able to grasp.

>> No.4987472

>>4984036
>Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.

>> No.4987478

>>4985099
Wow, that was such a stupid thing to say.

>> No.4987506

Can we perhaps just have a little bit of common decency?

>> No.4988652

Stop reading Orwell you dumb faggots, his Trotskyite fan-fiction didn't predict anything about today's nation-state accurately, he couldn't even write about the USSR accurately while it was around.