Episode Transcript: #1801 - David Mamet
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I'm happy to be back in the United States, I've been in California for the last...
The People's Republic of California?
Yeah, exactly so.
Yeah, it's an interesting turn of events. California has become a strange new place.
Yes, it has.
Almost unrecognizable.
Yes. Will it be recognizable to George Orwell?
Well, yeah, right? Even he probably been like, wow.
He was probably... If you could get George Orwell from the time he wrote 1988, when did he write 84?
Oh, that's pretty good. I don't know, I think it was the late 40s, we can look it up.
And then to see, you know, in 2022, he was in the neighborhood. He definitely was pretty close.
He was off like 1.2%.
There it is, 49. Wow, interesting.
You know, George Orwell said, he was an interesting guy, he was a cop in Burma.
Really?
Yes, he was a colonial cop and then he was a roustabout and he wrote the down and out in Paris and London, he was a bum.
And he said when thought control comes, it will come not from the right but from the left.
I wonder why he thought that?