The piece is an object lesson on how American education has failed society in completely abrogating the teaching of critical thinking. How can we tell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gaping irony of this bit, for starters, responding to people who “reduce” Orwell to “tyranny bad, liberty good”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Orwell\u2019s book is much more sophisticated. Orwell was interested not just in communicating the badness of totalitarian regimes\u00a0but also dissecting how they succeed through the manipulation of language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
And in comparing the fascists Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War (on the side of the doomed communists) with Trump supporters, the writer and USAToday <\/em>participate in the reduction of the language to a tool of political coercion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The left’s urge to control thought has gotten to none other than George Orwell himself – a push that is positively… …well, you know where I’m going. The piece is an object lesson on how American education has failed society in completely abrogating the teaching of critical thinking. How can we tell? The gaping irony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,44,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-stupid","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76440,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76439\/revisions\/76440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}