by James A. George, American Thinker:
Now we can add to that fictional list of grotesqueries a few not-at-all fictional categories which not long ago would have been regarded as quite simply unthinkable.
After the hell on earth that descended upon innocent Israeli families in their homes and young people attending a music rally on October 7, 2023, and the sickening campus protests in support of the Hamas animals who conducted the slaughter:
Barbarity is heroism.
After the true heroism of Daniel Penny in that subway car in May 2023, which may have saved the lives of several people who could have been assaulted by a drug-addled and mentally disturbed person screaming threats at them, for which he was charged by the radical Manhattan D.A. with a felony carrying a prison sentence of up to 20 years:
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Heroism is murder.
And after the stone-cold murder of the CEO of an insurance company executive on the street in New York City — shot in the back, which until only recently was regarded as the most heinous of cowardly acts — the murderer is widely admired as “the hot assassin” by his many cult followers online because he “took out” the head of a despised “evil” health care insurer:
Murder is heroism.
Nineteen Eighty-Four was, of course, fiction — a cautionary tale about the horrors of living in a purely socialist state. As the meme circulating online states, quoting Orwell, “I wrote 1984 as a novel, not as an instruction manual.”
With these vignettes from the world we live in today in mind, I am prompted to ask: How is American society different from the dystopian world Orwell created in his novel?
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