Orwell:
"For
forty or fifty years past, Mr. Wells and others have been warning us that
man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons, leaving the ants
or some other gregarious species to take over. Anyone who has seen the ruined
cities of Germany will find this notion at least thinkable. Nevertheless,
looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not
towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not
for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires
of antiquity. Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people
have yet considered its ideological implications—that is, the kind of
world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably
prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of
"cold war" with its neighbors."
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