Human nature is greedy and all that jazz. It was just a lot harder to be a bad person when your community was your life. It’s a lot easier though when you’re talking modern nation states composed of way too many people for your monkey brain to comprehend.
It was just a lot harder to be a bad person when your community was your life.
Not even that - small communities make 1984 look like a manual. When everyone is always in everyone’s business and privacy is a dirty word, it’s difficult to get away with anything that the rest of the community might disagree with.
Human nature is greedy and all that jazz. It was just a lot harder to be a bad person when your community was your life. It’s a lot easier though when you’re talking modern nation states composed of way too many people for your monkey brain to comprehend.
Not even that - small communities make 1984 look like a manual. When everyone is always in everyone’s business and privacy is a dirty word, it’s difficult to get away with anything that the rest of the community might disagree with.