1984 in 2024 Published Monday, January 1, 2023 A note from OCPAC FOUNDATION PRESIDENT BOB LINN 1984 One hundred twenty years ago (1903), Eric Arthur Blair was born in Bihar, India to an English family. A year later, his mother left for England taking Eric with her. Once Eric turned thirty, he adopted the pen-name George Orwell. This past weekend, our foundation’s Chairman, Wade Burleson, published an article itemizing the notable mirror images of Orwell’s 1984 reflected in American academia, journalism, and politics as we enter 2024. Like Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Orwell’s 1984 was written at the end of the author's life. He knew he was dying. As if struggling with his last breath to save mankind, he wrote what the atheist Christopher Hitchens described as: A deadly satire on the illusion of Soviet Communism. Orwell’s declining health made writing 1984 a race against time. Orwell would give us terms like Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, freedom is slavery, Big Brother, and, borrowing from Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground, 2+2=5. We call the nations who are culturally infected with these cancers Orwellian. With these come societies marked by censorship, force, and cruelty. 1984 is the most banned book all time It has been banned in places like the Soviet Union. Books are banned by tyrants who want their elitist propaganda to remain unsoiled. Finding someone willing to publish 1984 was difficult. Finally, Harcourt, Inc. was found. The book was published in 1949. Orwell died the next year. The novel 1984 describes life in a nation ruled by tyranny. Orwell’s name for his “fictitious” nation is Oceana. It was not actually so fictitious! Here are a few excerpts: Collectively, the Party owns everything in Oceana. Factories, mines, land, houses, transport – everything had been taken away from them. These things were no longer private property. The most gifted among them, who might possibly become nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated. From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. they could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly. Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible. But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the Party is not infallible, there is a need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. The key word here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as Doublethink. Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts. The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink. 2024 AMERICA Plenty of America's thought leaders are telling the nation that men can become pregnant. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, tells us that the borders are absolutely not open. And, we are being asked to believe the following statements from the Oval Office: This coming year the OCPAC Foundation will address the many elements of Orwellian cancers in Oklahoma, the nation, and the world. In January, we will address the identical nature of the woke assaults on China and Argentina and the ways in which they are indistinguishable from Oklahoma’s higher education in particular. Ideas incubated in our universities are then planted in our secondary schools. Nationally known Xi van Fleet will be with us on January 24 to address the striking similarities she witnessed while undergoing China's Maoist Revolution and our American classrooms. On January 10, we will air an interview with Argentina's newly elected President, Javier Milei. He will discuss the woke issues plaguing Argentina. They are identical to what we have in Oklahoma and the nation at large. Read Wade’s entire article in ISTORIA on Orwell's 1984 and America in 2024! 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