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Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. not treachery or physical cowardice , but stupidity , unconscious sabotage , an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing . They are not wicked , or not altogether wicked ; they are ...
Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. not treachery or physical cowardice , but stupidity , unconscious sabotage , an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing . They are not wicked , or not altogether wicked ; they are ...
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... stupidity , to be " clever " was to be suspect . If you had the kind of brain that could understand the poems of T. S. Eliot or the theories of Karl Marx , the higher - ups would see to it that you were kept out of any important job ...
... stupidity , to be " clever " was to be suspect . If you had the kind of brain that could understand the poems of T. S. Eliot or the theories of Karl Marx , the higher - ups would see to it that you were kept out of any important job ...
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... stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in them to see that devotion to one's country implies “ for better , for worse " . Both Blimps and highbrows took for granted , as though it were a law of nature , the ...
... stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in them to see that devotion to one's country implies “ for better , for worse " . Both Blimps and highbrows took for granted , as though it were a law of nature , the ...
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