George Orwell once wrote: ‘All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.’
He was someone who knew intimately the danger he was warning against, and also rightly said – even more ominously – via 1984:
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life.
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