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Read the whole thing, the whole piece is on fleek.
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I was one of the students in Packer's class last year. I brought my notebook from that class to Beirut when I moved here after graduation and some of my first notes are excerpts from his foreword to 'Facing Unpleasant Facts':
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“He [George Orwell] never stopped working at the essay’s essential task of articulating thoughts out of the stuff of life and art in a compressed space with a distinctly individual voice that speaks directly to the reader.”
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Here’s a weird one. Packer & Hitchens discuss Orwell early on; the speech is called “The Enemies of Writing.” But he seems unaware he’s quoting the thrust of Orwell’s “The Prevention of Literaure” more or less verbatim. That Orwell published in 1946 suggests the loop we’re in. /1
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“What is sinister, as I said at the beginning, is that the conscious enemies of liberty are those to whom liberty ought to mean most”; “any writer who adopts the outlook, who finds excuses for persecution and the falsification of reality, thereby destroys himself as a writer.” /2
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A curious paradox: There's so much boundary-pushing transgressive writing these days that it seems almost absurd to allege threats to freedom of expression. Yet everything Packer writes rings true. We can say anything our tribe wants to hear. Anything else, not so much.
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