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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Howard C. who wrote (507300)	12/10/2003 3:16:44 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

if you were around during Hitler's days I'd like to think I would have viewed him and his actions the same way Orwell did, objectively concluding that his regime and his actions were a threat to the entire world that must be stopped. But obsession, in this context, is not healthy; it is not conducive to objective reasoning. Rather, it is a symptom of one's total devotion of oneself to some cause - some form of "nationalism" as Orwell termed it - to the point of irrationality. You know, schools should stop making kids read 1984 and have them read Orwell's political essays and articles instead. Clearly the message is getting lost.