[ExI] memo

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 07/11/2021 17:13, bill w wrote:
>
> If human beings are still around hundreds of years from now, Orwell's 
> name will too.  bill w


That depends, I should think, on whether the humans hundreds of years 
from now have heeded his warning. I can't see any regime that takes his 
warnings as inspiration for how to run a society, allowing people to 
remember him (in the long run, anyway. This article on how communist 
China handles it is quite interesting: 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/why-1984-and-animal-farm-arent-banned-china/580156/)


Ben
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