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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: greenspirit who wrote (24820)	7/19/2000 1:08:58 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) of 769667

One of the authors who most influenced me when I was younger was George Orwell. I was still in grade school when I first read "1984", and I read it numerous times, sometimes the whole, sometimes a part. I also read "Animal Farm" a number of times, and some of his essays. I was very impressed with the conversation that Winston has with O'Brien on the nature of truth and the moral sense, and one of the first essays I wrote for my college paper was called "Metaphysics in 1984: Is Big Brother Lovable?", because I was convinced that acute skepticism and moral relativism would lead to totalitarianism. Only by affirming that there was a standard of truth to adhere to could we resist the manufacture of reality that totalitarianism entails, and only by affirming a standard of conduct could we restrain the cries of expediency that justify fanaticism. Those beliefs have stayed with me, and when it was clear that the only consistent defense of truth and decency was being made on the Right, I gravitated to the Right. Norman Podhoretz, also very much an admirer of Orwell, has argued that Orwell would have become a neoconservative had he lived. I think he is correct........

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