[a fool in paradise]

>>"What now I'm saying is, 'We will win.'"

"The Prisoner":

Number Six: Where am I?

Number Two: In the Village.

Number Six: What do you want?

Number Two: Information.

Number Six: Whose side are you on?

Number Two: That would be telling. We want information… information… information.

Number Six: You won't get it.

Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will.

Number Six: Who are you?

Number Two: The new Number Two.

Number Six: Who is Number One?

Number Two: You are Number Six.

Number Six: I am not a number! I am a free man!

Number Two: [laughs]

[No.6]

Number 2:”When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they’re looking into a mirror they will see that this is the pattern of the future.”
Number 6:”The whole earth as the village?”
Number 2:”That is my hope.”

GHWB’s new world order in a nutshell. Huxley, Orwell, McGoohan weren’t writing ‘warnings’ in the sense we usually learn as in ‘be alert lest this happen’ … they were describing plans already in motion.