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Living in an Orwellian Nightmare Offers Grim Vision of the Future
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Living in an Orwellian Nightmare Offers Grim Vision of the Future

Collectively sacrificing to save lives is better than self-centered radical individualism

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Jim Buie
Mar 27, 2021
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This meme was posted on social media by a friend who frequently complained about pandemic restrictions in her “liberal” state. I actually agreed with the meme. Life in a pandemic-infested world does indeed feel like a dystopia, an Orwellian nightmare.

I could not regularly visit face-to-face with colleagues, friends or neighbors. I went to only one (spar…

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