War is ultimately about collectivism…In George Orwell’s nightmarish dystopia 1984, the world is divided into three empires in a state of perpetual warfare, because “the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.” Every so often, a bomb falls in a lower-class neighborhood and kills enough people to remind them that they are at war and need Big Brother to protect them.
– Scott Horton, Individualism vs. War (Antiwar.com, August 2nd, 2005)
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