"The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering - a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons - a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face."
- George Orwell
I recently read New York Times (now former) editor Bari Weiss' resignation letter and it struck me. The current recent civil unrest, coupled with widespread revisionist history through the removal of statues and names, and this very high profile example of the "thought police," reminded me of one thing - George Orwell's 1984, which I hadn't read since high school. I re-read the 1949 classic and was shocked by how Orwell's prescient warnings have manifested themselves today.
Read my column in last Sunday's Aspen Times HERE.
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