I am rereading Orwell’s 1984, while I am also taking a course discussing the European world prior to World War 1. The amount of delusion that so-called intelligent people can absorb and support is not new. For example, Anarchists were celebrated in the 1890s in many countries. It is nauseating and frightening, but it happens.
We are in the middle of a massive culture war right now.
‘Popular’ culture is making too many Americans into the ‘proles’ of 1984, to use another example.
I am rereading Orwell’s 1984, while I am also taking a course discussing the European world prior to World War 1. The amount of delusion that so-called intelligent people can absorb and support is not new. For example, Anarchists were celebrated in the 1890s in many countries. It is nauseating and frightening, but it happens.
We are in the middle of a massive culture war right now.
‘Popular’ culture is making too many Americans into the ‘proles’ of 1984, to use another example.