{"id":81958,"date":"2022-05-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81958"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T18:06:41","slug":"an-interview-with-george-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81958","title":{"rendered":"An Interview With George Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>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. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: Mr. Orwell, one of your great quotes from <em>1984 <\/em>was &#8220;He who controls the past, controls the future.  He who controls the past, controls the present&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ORWELL:  Quite.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  So when you see today&#8217;s American Left saying things like this &#8211; 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 <em>hard <\/em>to stay shut down long after most of society had re-opened, but then went out in public to say&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Randi Weingarten: &quot;Our kids are in crisis. And we had a mental health crisis before COVID .. but for two years of disruption, two years of looking at the screens, two years of not having a normal kind of routine and rhythm, recovery is really tough.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5YAI5gQwnp\">pic.twitter.com\/5YAI5gQwnp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1521853025119309827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ORWELL:  Oh, I see things like that, and so much more, and I say to myself &#8220;George, you were such an impish young pollyanna back in 1948&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the past, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-81958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81958","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=81958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81983,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81958\/revisions\/81983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}