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Originally posted by Shoplifter
I think it still stands as the ultimate examination of the place of youth in modern society, and was prophetic in how it shows how youth would come to dominate society.
As well there is an interesting subtheme on the way government can manipulate law and opposition. I think the Bush regime has read this book, and also the chapters in Orwell's 1984 about the need for perpetual conflict to legitmize government.
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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
real or not this quote is good too
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate, and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Ceasar."