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Comparing V for Vendetta to 1984

McTeigue’s choice of state-run Christian fascism as the source of villainy seems itself more like propaganda than serious art. In brief, the main danger to freedom in Europe now is the same as it was when Orwell wrote: the drive of socialism to progressively increase the depth and breadth of its control. By making the danger out to be Christianity, McTeigue goes along with what the socialists have always said. . . . → Read More: Comparing V for Vendetta to 1984

What's wrong with these kids

The Roman soldiers who killed a teacher two thousand years ago killed people often–mostly rebels, robbers, and thugs. The system of which they were a part, the Roman state, had taught them to take honor in their work defending the order. They knew little or nothing of the dirty, bloodied commoner, or what he . . . → Read More: What’s wrong with these kids? 2/24