Orwellian brilliance

For those of you who have not read 1984, you really should. I have quoted it several times before, but in reading it recently, I stumbled across this gem. In it, Orwell predicts the return of imprisonment without trial, deportation, and torture: Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation. And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. Wow.