"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
What Does A Police State Look Like?
In America we are still free to keep diary. We can even publish it on the Internet. But Orwell’s point was that it's not enough for a police state to control the actions of people. To succeed it must control the minds of people too. It must criminalize thought.
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