Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorry to see the reviewers taking my book as propaganda. It wasn't intended for that. Propaganda on capitalism is the furtherest from my idea. It is an attempt to satirize these idealists who let their fanaticism carry them into the lunatic fringe. It is a rap, if you wish, at various so-called new thought movements; but, primarily, it was, for me, a technical problem. I tried to take the island that has been literary property for years, the island with its ideal Government, and give it a modern twist. I haven't even tried to be particularly original...
...ordinary laborer works in amazing ignorance of what the whole system means. He interprets everything to mean the company doesn't give a rap about him, and so he doesn't give a rap about the company, and calls it square. He therefore devotes all his energies to a pretence of working without any real exertion...