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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1610215" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>Greed. It's greed over human life. And it's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings. That's a common thread. We, in that biblical term, <strong>we forgot our neighbor.</strong> And because we forgot our neighbor in Pine Ridge, because we forgot our neighbor in Camden, in Southern West Virginia, in the produce fields,<strong> these forces have now turned on us. They went first, and we're next.</strong> And that's--</p><p></p><p><strong>BILL MOYERS</strong>: What do you mean we're next?</p><p></p><p><strong>CHRIS HEDGES</strong>: Well, the--</p><p></p><p><strong>BILL MOYERS</strong>: We being—</p><p></p><p><strong>CHRIS HEDGES</strong>: Two-thirds of this country. We are rapidly replicating that totalitarian vision of George Orwell in “1984.” We have an inner sanctum, inner party of 2 percent or 3 percent, an outer party of corporate managers, of 12 percent, and the rest of us are proles. I mean--</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Featured_Authors/fox,_william_b/Fox_works/Fox_books/Mission_of_Conscience/B-1/Art-1/MC-05/1984_Social_Classes_300px_Wikipedia.jpeg" target="_blank">http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Featured_Authors/fox,_william_b/Fox_works/Fox_books/Mission_of_Conscience/B-1/Art-1/MC-05/1984_Social_Classes_300px_Wikipedia.jpeg</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1610215, member: 56035"] Greed. It's greed over human life. And it's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings. That's a common thread. We, in that biblical term, [B]we forgot our neighbor.[/B] And because we forgot our neighbor in Pine Ridge, because we forgot our neighbor in Camden, in Southern West Virginia, in the produce fields,[B] these forces have now turned on us. They went first, and we're next.[/B] And that's-- [B]BILL MOYERS[/B]: What do you mean we're next? [B]CHRIS HEDGES[/B]: Well, the-- [B]BILL MOYERS[/B]: We being— [B]CHRIS HEDGES[/B]: Two-thirds of this country. We are rapidly replicating that totalitarian vision of George Orwell in “1984.” We have an inner sanctum, inner party of 2 percent or 3 percent, an outer party of corporate managers, of 12 percent, and the rest of us are proles. I mean-- [URL]http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Featured_Authors/fox,_william_b/Fox_works/Fox_books/Mission_of_Conscience/B-1/Art-1/MC-05/1984_Social_Classes_300px_Wikipedia.jpeg[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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