Posted on 08/02/2021 6:10:21 PM PDT by Vision
If you've never read George Orwell's 1984 you need to gain an understanding of the story. The video at the link provides the story in less than 8 minutes.
Read Animal Farm and 1984 in 1984.
Wrote a paper on George Orwell for my English class pointing out the evils of Socialism.
The teach gave me a D, all other papers I got usually a A.
Cancel culture was alive and well in the 80’s.
P.S. Great post!
The book’s pretty short. Read it.
I was fortunate. During college in the late 70's, my economics professor had Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom as a text book. My English professor, though Liberal leaning, drove stock cars.
Winston Smith played by John Hurt works for the government erasing people the government wants erased (unpersoning). What we know as “Canceling”.
A very good audio version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19z5QHcxjxY
I read ‘’1984’’ when it was pushed on me in junior high by a sixties type radical ‘’social studies’’ teacher that this was a vision of the future if “We don’t stop the war in Vietnam!’’ She actually said this.
I have to admit that as a fourteen year old I didn’t really understand what the book was about. I thought(in 1969) that 1984 itself was a long way off. I thought we’d be living on the Moon by that time. It was only years later, after I was out of high school that I went back and reread the book that I realized ‘’1984’’ is neither science fiction nor prophecy.
“1984’’ is a warning. A warning against the unbridled pursuit and use of power.
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