No. Wigan Pier's a great book. But at this point in the book Orwell is arguing that nylon stockings have worked--that people *think* they're happy.
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>>You don't want to say that people aren't *allowed* to
>>dream of Michael Jordan while wearing their Nikes.
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>You do want to say that their lives shouldn't be made up of such hopeless
>and distracting dreams, though. Nor that their notion of self-worth should
>depend on the patterns on their footwear.
Well put...
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>>In short, I don't know what I think. But I do think that the issues
>>are more complicated than Naomi Klein admits. (Which doesn't mean
>>that her book isn't a very good book.)
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>Well, at the end of the day, we do have to make judgements about these
>things, doncha reckon?
We do. But I don't yet know what to think...