Too Orwellian To Check: '1984' Gets a Trigger Warning

<![CDATA[I'd say "too ironic to check," but this goes well beyond irony and into prophecy fulfillment. George Orwell wrote his masterpiece 1984 as a warning about how authoritarians would manipulate language and amend texts to obfuscate truths and oppress the masses. Orwell set his protagonist Winston Smith in the Ministry of Truth to highlight how important language control and its obfuscation was to the totalitarian aims of regimes. Orwell includes other aspects of authoritarianism in 1984 too, but as a writer, Orwell understood the critical element of language manipulation in misleading and misdirecting the masses.]]>