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To: fanfan

This is closer to Orwell’s “1984”, than to Huxley’s “Brave New World” or Sinclair’s “It Cant Happen Here”..........


4 posted on 11/24/2008 11:51:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: Red Badger

Very 1984.

:-(


9 posted on 11/24/2008 12:11:17 PM PST by fanfan
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To: Red Badger
"Oh brave new world that has such people in it,"

This is a line from Shakespeare's The Tempest, delivered by the monster Caliban with clueless irony about some people who are in fact quite ordinary indeed. [Huxley's "Brave New World" was never properly titled.]

Given that context, and given that the adolescents who populate our universities -- at the student, faculty, and administrator levels -- from time immemorial have been little more than a thundering herd of conformist busybodies who prattle mindlessly about "diversity" and "academic freedom" the title seems quite appropriate.

10 posted on 11/24/2008 2:14:13 PM PST by FredZarguna (Archimedes, Newton, Leibniz, James and John Bernoulli, Euler, Gauss, Riemann, Hermite, Laplace...)
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