I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell and ran across this paragraph on page 189. To me it sounds very familiar as a Watchtower quote from the 1970s. Does anyone know where this is?
The world of today is a bare, hungry, dilapidated place compared with the world that existed before 1914, and still more so if compared with the imaginary future to which the people of that period looked forward. In the early twentieth century, the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly and efficient--a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete--was part of the consciousness of nearly every literate person.
Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions . . . "
This sounds so familiar from the Watchtower. The incredible thing, if it was quoted from the WT, is that this was a futuristic fiction novel of a horrible new world, looking back.
Thanks if anyone finds that. I don't have the CD at hand till this evening.
Pat
UADNA (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America)