Like honestly the more I think about it the harder I find it to forgive that 1984 is tailor made to appeal to "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" The book itself *exactly* the kind of pure appeal to emotion, to primal fear, that Orwell is supposed to be warning us against
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"No freedom for the enemies of Liberty!" "That's why we're going to torture people we suspect of working for Al Qaeda, demand that the citizenship of people suspected of holding anti-judeo-christian views removed, and refuse entrance to r⃫e⃫f⃫u⃫g⃫e⃫e⃫s⃫ migrants"
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Well, now I need a five hour nap. That was exhausting.
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I've always found it remarkable how the right is *constantly* arguing that concepts actually mean the direct inversion of their intuitive meanings, e.g. "freedom of speech should mean that wealthy people cannot be criticised" (1/?)
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or "economic freedom is maximised when people's choices are to unconditionally obey the wealthy or die" or "being an open-minded rebel means uncritically agreeing with popular consensus"
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