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Orwell’s 1984 and Today (re-post)
Imprimis ^ | December 2020, | Larry P. Arnn

Posted on 02/27/2021 11:21:25 AM PST by yoe

On September 17, Constitution Day, I chaired a panel organized by the White House. It was an extraordinary thing. The panel’s purpose was to identify what has gone wrong in the teaching of American history and to lay forth a plan for recovering the truth. It took place in the National Archives—we were sitting in front of the originals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—a very beautiful place. When we were done, President Trump came and gave a speech about the beauty of the American Founding and the importance of teaching American history to the preservation of freedom.

[snip]The panel was part of an initiative of President Trump, mostly ignored by the media, to counter the New York Times’ 1619 Project. The 1619 Project promotes the teaching that slavery, not freedom, is the defining fact of American history. President Trump’s 1776 Commission aims to restore truth and honesty to the teaching of American history. It is an initiative we must work tirelessly to carry on, regardless of whether we have a president in the White House who is on our side in the fight. The panel was part of an initiative of President Trump, mostly ignored by the media, to counter the New York Times’ 1619 Project. The 1619 Project promotes the teaching that slavery, not freedom, is the defining fact of American history. President Trump’s 1776 Commission aims to restore truth and honesty to the teaching of American history. It is an initiative we must work tirelessly to carry on, regardless of whether we have a president in the White House who is on our side in the fight.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 1984; larryarnn
What Mr. Arnn's has written here is exactly what is happening to our country...each day it is moving faster and faster to those ends. Please read and please call your electded's offices; History, written or art, remains true...no re-writes.

"Totalitarianism will never win in the end--but it can win long enough to destroy a civilization. That is what is at stake in the fight we are in. We can se today the totalitarian impulse among powerful forces in our politics and culture. We can see it in the rise and imposition of doublethink, and we can see it in the increasing attempt to rewrite our history.

1 posted on 02/27/2021 11:21:25 AM PST by yoe
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To: yoe

The “Mike Lindell” of education


2 posted on 02/27/2021 1:15:18 PM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: yoe

We desperately need more conservative to take to the historical field. Both as professionals inside and as citizen historians outside.

Progressives came to control history because nobody wanted to do the job. They found an empty battlefield so they won by default.


3 posted on 02/27/2021 1:37:27 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: yoe

bkmk


4 posted on 02/27/2021 2:31:10 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: yoe

<>Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas go so far as to say that changing the past—making what has been not to have been—is denied even to God.<>

Yes. Yet it goes on today.

This will not end well.


5 posted on 02/27/2021 3:12:18 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: yoe

The “post without reading” culture at FR is a shame.

Orwell explains the purpose of today’s rats.


6 posted on 02/27/2021 3:28:42 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: yoe

Thank you for posting this, yoe.


7 posted on 02/27/2021 3:55:45 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: Jacquerie

Jacquerie, I agree that happens (the “post without reading”) but how does it relate in this thread? Just curious.


8 posted on 02/27/2021 3:58:54 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: yoe

I am currently re-reading 1984, I haven’t touched it since high school. I advise other FReepers to do the same, so much of it is relevant today.


9 posted on 02/27/2021 4:34:12 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: wjcsux
I am currently re-reading 1984, I haven’t touched it since high school. I advise other FReepers to do the same, so much of it is relevant today.

Also Animal Farm.

There are a lot of sheep bleating "one mask good, two masks better".

10 posted on 02/27/2021 9:08:02 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

I just finished 1984, Animal Farm ,Brave New World and the Screwtape letters. There in the Screwtape letters is an additional section called Screwtape preposes a Toast. This section written in 1960 was incorporated in the book with a foward by C.S. Lewis. He shows us the root causes of the abomination of today. He lays it all out 60 years ago. He holds up a mirror that reflects what is happening today. While its not Orwell, its still none the less chilling.
I highly recommend it.


11 posted on 02/27/2021 9:24:30 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (It didn’t work out!)
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To: Empireoftheatom48
There in the Screwtape letters is an additional section called Screwtape preposes a Toast. This section written in 1960 was incorporated in the book with a foward by C.S. Lewis. He shows us the root causes of the abomination of today.

Been too many years since I read that.

It's Lent...time for a re-read!

12 posted on 02/27/2021 9:31:30 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: rlmorel

It’s my lament at how incredibly well-written and informative columns like Dr. Arnn’s go unread. All the elements of totalitarian Oceania are warming up in America. Thought crimes, Thought Police, Ingsoc, telescreens, Newspeak, Big Brother, revisionist history, endless war for little apparent purpose, grinding poverty, societal destruction and misery accelerate right under our noses.

All that, and before I press “post,” only twelve comments. Few of them are informed.

OTOH, a vanity titled, “Pelosi S*cks” with nothing more would generate dozens of comments.

No matter, that is just the way things are.


13 posted on 02/28/2021 6:22:29 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

I see. I just didn’t see anything that warranted it, but that is because I didn’t understand.

When I saw it was Dr. Arnn, I made sure I read it, and thought it was a great article, so good that I copied it to a file. I am a sucker for learned comparisons of today’s situations to Orwell’s work.

I am 100% on board with you. I see threads about well written and relevant articles, and it gets 18 responses.

Then you see some thread about a cat walking across ice, and it generates hundreds.

Granted, I think people are trying to mentally maintain a dynamic equilibrium in this difficult time, but...we do have to pay attention while we lick our wounds.


14 posted on 02/28/2021 11:22:45 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: Jacquerie

LOL...14 responses.

Wasn’t far off.


15 posted on 02/28/2021 11:23:09 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: lightman; Empireoftheatom48
The Screwtape Letters is awesome! I haven't been able to read for going on a decade, and I got an audiobook version narrated by...John Cleese!

His voice is absolutely perfect for it...:)

16 posted on 02/28/2021 11:25:46 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: rlmorel

Quite right. We must indeed pay attention while we lick our wounds.


17 posted on 02/28/2021 1:26:16 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

No, unfortunately, this crap that’s happening to history right now predated even the Progressives. Barruel as well as Timothy Dwight made that very clear with their books that if anything, this crap started with Voltaire, Diderot, and D’Alembert, and Jefferson if anything attempted to further engineer their plans here in America.

https://archive.org/details/BarruelMemoirsIllustratingTheHistoryOfJacobinism

All the Progressives did was inherit Voltaire’s tactics.


18 posted on 02/28/2021 2:46:10 PM PST by otness_e
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