Old Man in New World
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"Old Man in New World" is a short story
Short story
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 by Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon
William Olaf Stapledon was a British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction.-Life:...

, published as a separate volume by George Allen and Unwin in 1944. It was published through PEN
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, the international writers' association.

The story is set some time in the 1960s, and tells of the world that has been rebuilt from the devastation of the Second World War, as seen through the eyes of an old revolutionary. The "Old Man" is invited to London
London
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to see "The Procession of The Peoples", an event celebrating the new order and the triumph of the human spirit.

In witnessing this event, however, the Old Man sees nothing but the seeds of the very things he, in his youth, fought against — falsehood, political will and religiosity.
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