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The Diaries of Henry Osborne (Part 2)

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 12, 2018

Reading Henry’s diaries is taking longer than expected. Tumbling down the research rabbit hole every few pages is a time-consuming pleasure. Is that book Henry mentioned available readily online? How […]

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The Diaries of Henry Osborne (Part I)

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on April 23, 2018

“A sub-deputy’s job was to supervise the poppy growers in his district and make sure the crop was cultivated in the most efficient way. The […]

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The #Orwell quote from The Lion and the Unicorn was worthy of a run: "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase" in The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY #brexit

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The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY and I do wonder if @aroberts_andrew would describe himself as a "right wing historian"?

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MIT, Stanford professors are designing a cryptocurrency to top Bitcoin fortune.com/2019/01/… ping @Downes

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In Time (2011) by Andrew Niccol is not a futuristic dystopia but informed contemporary economic analysis. Discuss. pic.twitter.com/nOBf…

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The rest of the quote: "In order to fit into these organisations, individuals have had to deindividualise themselves, have had to deny their native diversity and conform to a standard pattern, have had to their best to become automata." twitter.com/Darcy196…

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Aldous Huxley sagely wrote: "Too much organisation transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom ..." #managerialism twitter.com/sdinhamu…

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