‘History Stopped in 1936’

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Orwell's above observations were inspired by the World War II era when totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and Communist Russia constituted a threat to freedom in the world. But since then, a number of thinkers have remarked that America and other Western countries are devolving into a "soft totalitarianism," in which a pleasure-loving and increasingly lonely populace surrenders their freedoms to radical ideologies, which maintain their hold through education and a steady stream of propaganda.
-Daniel Lattier

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/11/no_author/you-are-here-orwell-history-stopped-in-1936-and-everything-since-is-propaganda/