“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?... A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.” Orwell, 1984

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Yet no one learned to avert the future he foretold. Don't the public deserve this- even though a warning was given? where was the collective responsibility?