An Interview With George Orwell
By Mitch Berg
SCENE: The set of a tony TV talk show; black background, two chairs, end table with two glasses of water. Mitch BERG is interviewing George ORWELL, back from the great beyond.
BERG: Mr. Orwell, one of your great quotes from 1984 was “He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the past, controls the present”.
ORWELL: Quite.
BERG: So when you see today’s American Left saying things like this – a woman who specifically called for shutting down schools, even as the science piled up that children and their teachers were safer from a public health perspective in school than at home, that most of Europe recognized this well over a year ago, and that fought hard to stay shut down long after most of society had re-opened, but then went out in public to say…:
ORWELL: Oh, I see things like that, and so much more, and I say to myself “George, you were such an impish young pollyanna back in 1948”.
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May 6th, 2022 at 7:01 am
That quote from 1984 isn’t quite correct. You got your past and present reversed. “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”.
May 6th, 2022 at 9:25 am
She wouldn’t understand why she is being stood up against the wall until the last second.
May 10th, 2022 at 7:43 am
That Twitter blue check stands for BS artist
May 10th, 2022 at 8:04 am
Don’t be too hard on Randi, after all, she is fighting the good fight against capitalism….
…and of course, racism.
May 10th, 2022 at 8:10 am
They aren’t her kids.
May 10th, 2022 at 8:14 am
jdm, I thought that did not sound quite right.
May 10th, 2022 at 1:58 pm
Man, that Weingarten woman is awful. She’s like the Fauci of education.
May 10th, 2022 at 3:29 pm
She touches ALL the bases, jdm.
May 10th, 2022 at 4:02 pm
Who better to understand the needs of American families than a childless lesbian labor organizer from New York?