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Wednesday 18 September 2002
 


David Brin paraphrases George Orwell:

Oh, some people have been saying, "Look, it's just a movie." George Orwell had a reply to claims that political considerations have no place in art or entertainment critiques. He said (paraphrase) "To critique the aesthetics of a brick building and ignore the fact that it is being used as a gas chamber in a concentration camp is to defeat the whole point of aesthetics."

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