Two Minutes Hate

“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.”

– George Orwell, 1984

Of course, the Two Minutes Hate could never happen here in our beautiful, inclusive, diverse, tolerant democracy, because –

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