Orwell understood the essence of world federation, world peace, global governance, et al: “the past was erased, the erasure was forgotten; the lie became truth” a process in which “war is peace” and “freedom is slavery.” It’s the story of the West and what goes around comes around: virtual theodicy becomes virtual reality, plausible or implausible fictions and collective personae. They swear it’s all about the enfranchisement of mind: by such logic post obit wins a Nobel Prize and love will rule the planets… Global warming and the new ice age gaze at each other from media mirrors as the air fills with images of deceit, a communist program built on ancient yearnings for communion.

Kerr wrote that a middle ground between a world federation