Orwell Explains How Socialists Alter Language to Alter HistoryJune 16, 2019 Updated: June 18, 2019
Orwell wrote that through the alteration of the past, and by portraying the remaining memory of history as evil—or supportive only of the socialist regime—classic texts such as the American Declaration of Independence would be incomprehensible in their original context. People would be incapable of understanding them as they were originally intended.
And as if to demonstrate how close today’s society has come to what Orwell warned of, the Declaration of Independence has been framed just like this. Under the new ideas of “hate speech,†in 2018 the censors at Facebook flagged the Declaration of Independence as having offensive content.
To demonstrate the full scale of irony, let’s look at what Orwell predicted in “1984â€:...
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