No writer has influenced me more deeply than George Orwell, for it was he who first intimated to me, via “Nineteen Eighty-four,” that literature serves purposes above and beyond entertainment. So I’m always glad to see him referenced, as he is here. And who better to remind us of the issues at stake in this battle with illiberal Woke pro…
No writer has influenced me more deeply than George Orwell, for it was he who first intimated to me, via “Nineteen Eighty-four,” that literature serves purposes above and beyond entertainment. So I’m always glad to see him referenced, as he is here. And who better to remind us of the issues at stake in this battle with illiberal Woke progressivism? More than seventy years ago, he spotted and described the early warning signs of the malign ideology that afflicts us today. What is Woke progressivism but Ingsoc? What is its mode of discourse but Newspeak? What is the essence of its mentality but doublethink?
Back in our 1984, I recall reading articles congratulating America and the world for dodging the Orwellian bullet. The grim future he’d envisioned had not come to pass and Mr. Orwell stood revealed as a false prophet, no longer needed. But it turns out that we do need the man who once wrote that if freedom of speech means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
No writer has influenced me more deeply than George Orwell, for it was he who first intimated to me, via “Nineteen Eighty-four,” that literature serves purposes above and beyond entertainment. So I’m always glad to see him referenced, as he is here. And who better to remind us of the issues at stake in this battle with illiberal Woke progressivism? More than seventy years ago, he spotted and described the early warning signs of the malign ideology that afflicts us today. What is Woke progressivism but Ingsoc? What is its mode of discourse but Newspeak? What is the essence of its mentality but doublethink?
Back in our 1984, I recall reading articles congratulating America and the world for dodging the Orwellian bullet. The grim future he’d envisioned had not come to pass and Mr. Orwell stood revealed as a false prophet, no longer needed. But it turns out that we do need the man who once wrote that if freedom of speech means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.