Thank you for this. Its so painful. Should never have come this far…now what! Canada is so far down the road towards this kind of control that most days I read the news & want to flee this nation.
The control the government of Great Britain exerted over the media, and law enforcement system in regard to the “grooming gangs”, as well as the suppression of the information and the upholding of written law, is demonstrative of Orwells intent to warn us to protect our freedom. .
While I don’t disagree with anything you said regarding 1984 - it is indeed one of the most important books of the 20th Century - I often find that the lionizing of Orwell as some kind of anti-establishment figure conveniently whitewashes a lot of personal details from the equation. Aside from the fact he was a member of the Fabian Society and a committed lifelong socialist, he also had a troubling number of connections with the British intelligence agency, not least through his first wife, Eileen. Admittedly, Orwell was a complex figure and one whose motivations are very difficult to discern, but given that he’s just been minted on the new £2 coin, it seems unlikely that he’s the pro-freedom figurehead he is generally remembered as.
Thank you for this. Its so painful. Should never have come this far…now what! Canada is so far down the road towards this kind of control that most days I read the news & want to flee this nation.
Orwell was right.
The control the government of Great Britain exerted over the media, and law enforcement system in regard to the “grooming gangs”, as well as the suppression of the information and the upholding of written law, is demonstrative of Orwells intent to warn us to protect our freedom. .
While I don’t disagree with anything you said regarding 1984 - it is indeed one of the most important books of the 20th Century - I often find that the lionizing of Orwell as some kind of anti-establishment figure conveniently whitewashes a lot of personal details from the equation. Aside from the fact he was a member of the Fabian Society and a committed lifelong socialist, he also had a troubling number of connections with the British intelligence agency, not least through his first wife, Eileen. Admittedly, Orwell was a complex figure and one whose motivations are very difficult to discern, but given that he’s just been minted on the new £2 coin, it seems unlikely that he’s the pro-freedom figurehead he is generally remembered as.