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!
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.
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.