MEME WHILE: [] The Left’s Critique of George Orwell: Is It a Case of Irony?
Seems to me, the left has done this to: Each of Our Forefathers, America, via critical race theory, and every other important writing and Writer in History.
Is Aldous Huxley next?
Is Aldous Huxley next?
If people don't see Goebbels and Mao in this approach they aren't paying attention.
I had a long conversation with an Admitted Communist. He glowed with the fact that under communism EVERYONE is EQUAL. He even said that if a company goes out of business in communism because the government set the price below a workable level, that the people will donate their time to keep the business going because they appreciate the lower prices.
And he believed this stuff. And I asked him "So, if EVERYONE is truly equal. Then EVEN a mentally handicapped person will get his turn to run the country? And you are okay with that?"
No. He cried. You can't let that happen.
I replied: I know that... But now that we are on the same page, that there is no such thing as EQUALITY of people, EVEN in communism... When do you think the people in POWER will give it up to let someone else have a turn? (Since we've never seen it really happen, and we know human nature...)
So... I think ignorant people know how to protect themselves and their power. Look at the morons in charge. And pay close attention to how Trump is charged for non-crimes, and actual crimes go unpunished. Doesn't take a genius to setup one-sided rules.
Just watch what hurts your cause... And attack it with the media in tow!
https://fee.org/articles/was-george-o...
Here's a paragraph from it: "George Orwell, to his credit, was a friend of freedom of speech and press and an unrelenting foe of totalitarianism and censorship. He would shudder if you accused him of being a communist. But if you called him a socialist, he might thank you and then issue objections to the authoritarian things socialists like to do." He may have called himself a "Democratic Socialist".
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in spite of the hell he went through giving us "The Gulag Archipelago", considered socialism the way to go. IMHO, these authors could write amazing works for public consumption illustrating in detail the failure and nightmare of statist collectivism, but failed in their personal lives to connect the dots to the cause.
The article cited above says after reading Hayek's "The Road To Serfdom", Orwell may have had an epiphany and moved away from socialism and towards being Libertarian.
They are wrinkling their noses at the truth, leaving the left steamed and pressing for Orwell censure.
Just yesterday my friend and I were talking about that movie "Don't Look Up". Reminds me of that a little. "A meteor is about to kill us all." "Don't look up, racist."