Letters to the Editor
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Amerigo
I think Orwell's book was a parable about the perennial human condition, like Plato's cave: each generation has to wake up and see their chains anew. Orwell wrote about how the elites in any time rule the masses. And now we are waking up to our chains (people always waking up to this at various stages and degrees). And can we break the cycle? I don't know. Because I don't know, I think we need to try to get everyone to see this that we can. Its why I became a teacher, to try to aid in this. We all have to try something. Since we are not masters of the universe and knowers of all reality, it might be that those who say we cannot change this perennial human condition are wrong. Maybe we can. But it won't be through the tools and methods (the violence) of the elites. Because then we become the new elites, etc. I don't know if there is hope or not. Because I don't know, then, I hope.