Skylune writes:

Sorry all, for the brief return visit. MX's allusion to Orwell's book
might work a bit better had it not been for the 9/11/01 terrorist
attacks, which were not illusory to those of us who worked in NYC at
the time.

Those attacks were much more damaging psychologically than in any
other way, which was precisely the intent. Terrorists don't have the
means to do much real damage, so they have to settle for spectacular
and isolated incidents and rely on the resulting hysteria to do their
work for them. If they had the means to do real damage themselves,
they'd be military forces, not terrorists. Organizations with
established military forces don't need terrorists.

And for the very real terrorist attacks going on elsewhere,
every day.

How many terrorist attacks have there been in the United States since
2001?

Comparing the current state of affairs to the book, "1984," where all
these fictitious wars against Eurasia and Eastasia, is kind of weird.

I wish that were true.

Funny that a guy from France talks about freedom of speech, when over
there the politicians are more afraid of offending Islamists than even
the Democrats here.

The flavors of censorship are different, but the trends are
unfortunately the same. But the people are kept afraid, so that they
never question the loss of liberty.

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