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November 2, 2013
You'll Hate the Question from Your Grandchildren's Children
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 2, 2013 1:15 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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It wasn't worth dying for and it wasn't worth killing over, apparently.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 2, 2013 3:47 PM
Freedom, with its current meaning at least, won't survive for future generations to ask unpleasant questions about. See 1984 for an example of how it happens and look at political correctness to see it in action in modern life.
Posted by: Tom at November 3, 2013 2:33 AM
Spirit crushing mediocrity will be the norm at that time. It would be like trying to describe a color that has never been seen before. Fortunately for them, it's all they will have ever known. It will be a hybrid dystopia characterized by the cloying pleasure-seeking described by Huxley, and Orwell's jack-booted Big Brother.
There will never be an acceptable excuse as to why preceding generations allowed this to happen. It will because Evil was ignored and it was so much easier to do nothing.
Posted by: Richard at November 3, 2013 7:44 AM
Kid, we were not free, we just believed we were.
Posted by: Plop at November 3, 2013 2:41 PM