The Killer American Self: Democracy as Suicide
Yesterday, we witnessed the Death Penalty — circa 1931 — with George Orwell’s assistance in “Taking the Mechanism Out of Man.”
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Taking the Mechanism Out of Man
In 1931, George Orwell wrote a magnificent essay simply entitled, “A Hanging.” That piece is a hauntingly simple story of a prison execution. There is no fantasy in the dying and we are made real and substantial witnesses.
