It sends chills down your spine, doesn’t it? Seeing how right Orwell was always gives me chills, meaning as it does that our present path is one toward the unbelievable evil of 1984.
As we speak, the leftist liars behind the 1919 Project, Critical Theory, and woke education plans are rewriting history to confuse the American populace and ensure that whatever histories we’re allowed to read confirm their worldview.
They rewrite tellings of the American Revolution to make it not a tale of individual liberty triumphing over tyranny and a colonial David defeating an Imperial Goliath, thanks largely to an incredibly brave, thoughtful, and well-read generation, but rather a story of evil white men preserving slavery.
They rewrite the War between the States to make it a war over slavery rather than states’ rights while simultaneously tearing down statues of the brave generals and other men of note that fought in that war.
Streets are renamed after the causes of the present woke movement (just think of BLM plaza in D.C.) while leftists hunt down every school named after famous “old, white men,” canceling and renaming schools named after people as different as Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Soon, nothing will have a unique name; it’ll be High School AB3V4 rather than Jeff Davis High or FDR Memorial Middle School. Everything will have been erased in the name of political correctness and wokeness.
And what is the reason for that, why are they erasing our history and attacking the memories of great men?
Because the fact that Robert E Lee was a great man doesn’t fit into the leftist paradigm. The fact that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison accomplished things far more important than owning slaves doesn’t square with their worldview.
They think Winston Churchill was evil because he defended the British Empire, Christopher Columbus was evil because the Indians ended up dying, and capitalism is evil because a few workers didn’t make enough to justify their hard work.
No matter what the issue is, the left can’t help but look at it through a straw, seeing only what they want to see. Every “old, white man” was evil, every hierarchy not premised on anti-racism unjust, and every system reprehensible if it resulted in even a small injustice of some sort. Except for socialism, of course; it’s a leftist ideology so it’s beyond criticism.
Hence why they’re so gung-ho about cancel culture. Why it’s so omnipresent, continuous, and savage. They can’t understand why we remember Lee, why we love George Washington, or what it is about the Industrial Revolution that was good for the world.
And since they don’t understand it, they hate it. Their claim to superiority comes from the credentials handed out by whatever college they attended, so it infuriates them that they either a) don’t understand something or b)might be wrong to deplore a system or individual from our past. Their supposed “intelligence” is the basis of their legitimacy, their being correct the only reason anyone might listen to them (as with Oceania in 1984), so they must change history so as to be proven correct.
So, the only solution is to erase history so that they can be right about it. They rewrite the records, falsify the history books, and tear down every statue that might be not PC at some vague point in the future. They can’t be wrong or ill-informed if everything that doesn’t comport with their worldview has been disappeared by a nameless drone in the back office of some bureaucracy.
Orwell called it. The totalitarians of the 21st century, Churchill’s “Socialist Gestapo,” are using cancel culture and academia to erase our history so that they’re always right.
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I hate all that had a hand in removing and disrespecting our Confederate statues and symbols. Continued “swallowing the Dog”.
LGBTQ is the new Yankee.
We were tricked and terrorized into surrender.
I will quietly and stealthily do what I can to screw them in the assssz.
I am with you – I will fight this with all my might. In the 1960s I swore I would kill Commies – I have never subscribed to socialism – I have been a Libertarian all my life and believe in freedom of the individual as long as it doesn’t harm another.
The whole programme is designed to divide and conquer. Lefties encompass a vast swath of the middle/upper class academics, celebrities, politicians et al. They are ‘herd’ people who seek comfort in groups and virtue signalling. They are weak and ineffectual yet wield power in our dysfunctional society way beyond their station.
They have imposed all the sins described in the Bible – they are Babylon personified with all the moral decay, dishonesty and the worst of human nature encompassed in their degraded philosophy.
Our day will come, following the coming collapse, when these people will be lost and frightened. The strong individualists will be the pioneers who will carve out a better society of small government, sound money and free markets:
I am good with history, the good the bad, and the ugly. No need to change the account of it so babies don’t cry. Maybe someone will make a decent account of it and make new paper books showing how it really was. I guess I’m dreaming. I wonder how Antifa and what the Democrats are doing now will be told. They will probably be written up as heroes who saved the country from the orange fascist.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/15/biden-administration-asks-americans-to-report-potentially-radicalized-friends-and-family/
https://www.theblaze.com/news/school-district-turn-in-students-teachers-bias
https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/19/biden-administration-prepares-way-for-banks-to-refuse-service-to-democrats-enemies/
https://thenewamerican.com/germany-rolls-out-digital-vaccination-covid-pass/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3fx4uovsA
Orwell was close. The Washington Post presents their plan:
People don’t realize Orwell simply had insider information.
So did Huxley. I’m always amazed that people find a right/wrong or an either/or distinction between Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World. Orwell thought enslavement by force & punishment; Huxley thought enslavement by pleasure, pills, and genetic controls.
Covid 19 has shown that neither is necessary.
Simple grade-school-style peer pressure (with accompanying grade-school-level arguments), the need of some to virtue signal, the strong impulse to conformity, and the apathy to “go along to get along” are an overabundance of weapons at the disposal of social engineers. But it isn’t all on the heads of the social engineers. When you’re finally enslaved, don’t blame government or some “elite”; blame your neighbor ‘Karen’, your virtue-signalling cousin, your ignorant co-workers, your apathetic friends, and most of the people you know who long ago gave up thinking for themselves. Blame the sheeple.
It took me about six months to get through the collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell (thanks Dad!) and I came to a very different conclusion. He worked very hard at understanding what was going on and came to it organically. I know they say that TB killed him, but it reads like it was the discovery that everything he believed was in error. It was a tough pill too swallow for him, knowing that all the things he nearly gave his life for were lies.
The destruction of the family is what rewrites history.
The number of bastard children is mind blowing. When the phrase “my baby’s momma” becomes so popular, one knows this society is dead.
Look at the illegal invasion down on the border, bus loads of children just dropped off all over the country.
We have lost our Core Memories, haven’t we?
That was an exceptional film.
Why do you say it was an exceptional movie?
It has a real message of family love and bonding. In this era of propaganda, that is exceptional.
Payback is going to be Hell on Liberals.
Season Four of “The Man in the High Castle” contains the “Jahr Null” initiative wherein American history is systematically destroyed to create a cultural reset in the American Reich. The young also start policing the behavior and statements of their parents and teachers. There is a pivotal scene after the destruction of the Statue of Liberty in which mobs of young people roam the streets of New York City torching cars and libraries and beating down adults who object; seems familiar! This season was produced in 2019 and therefore does not reflect the events of 2020 and 2021, but predicts them. Because National Socialism, or Fascism, is essentially leftist.