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  • The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

    William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.479, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.