[fhayek]

When I was in my teens, I read 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm and Brave New World. And I scoffed the arrogant, naive, scoffs of a middle class drone. We read these books in literature, but we we removed, maybe even isolated from the cautionary tales so presented. This was America, for gosh sake, never happen here.

We read, but we did not listen.

[a fool in paradise]

Orwell wrote them as cautionary tales about the Stalinists in the West he’d seen up close and that ultimately led him to reject Communism.