[SBprone]

In Paul Johnson's book Intellectuals, he refers to Orwell as a "Man of Letters" to diffenentiate him from Johnson's rogues gallery of idiot intellectuals including Tolstoy, Marx and several others. Orwell's distinction was that he put in his years as a leftist but he never denied the human truths that were revealed to him in his life and travels, and his recognition of those truths is what made him into a conservative.

Orwell was a hero of his time and an inspiration to me and many others.

[Helms]

When you consider pacifism, it is not necessarily so as in taking this position you are are cleverly allwoing others to do the heavy lifting that freedom requires. I see passive agressiveness in this stance as well. I suspect that there is a genetic/cultural basis for this just as we have a warrior caste in society. The 60's was a case study where anti-war activities were only a will to power for the likes of Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda, etc in the simple furtherance of their own agendas.

In many ways the 60's was a despicable generation. Lastly Borks book points out that there were and are simply some who cannot or will not accept the freedoms which this great country affords them (and us) and are therefore rowdy children.