‘If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated… But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet—!’ George Orwell
Today it is argued by the chattering classes that Trump, Brexit, Victor Orban and the Alternative fur Deutschland are "Orwellian" which is rather Orwellian as it is the revolt of the proles against the modern rulers of continental scale entities resembling Eurasia and Oceania that fuels their rise.
It is the protean ability of intellectuals to define anything they dislike as evil and thought crime that is so....Orwellian.
Mick Hume on the Orwellian use of Orwellian by our Orwellian intelligentsia. Or as the Talking Heads would say (well sing): "Same as it ever was, same as it ever was...."
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