Why is it so difficult to believe that the worst is happening? You who believe in progress? Look at the marvellous whisper-jets in our skies. But they are flown by a police force that isn’t accountable to you or me. You believe in the elimination of poverty. Look at the efficient way the computers are planning a world economy, how they will number us, and we shall be made content, lacking nothing. Look at the ways they are eliminating the poor themselves by burning them to death with saline and cutting them to pieces in the womb. Talk about woks! A very strange age, is it not? But you
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