David Krayden Reads George Orwell Podcast
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Visit my Substack for my NEW George Orwell podcast, where I will be doing audio book readings and discussion of all things George Orwell. It will be exclusive to Substack due to YouTube content rules.
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Geroge Orwell is one of the few people whose last names have come to describe an odious political condition, a particular dystopia and state of mind — Orwellian is how we describe the kind of censorship and cancel culture that thrives in what used to be traditional democratic states. Yet Orwell was his pen name. Eric Arthur Blair was a socialist who voted for the British Labour Party but he was never comfortable with socialism or the inevitable excesses of the state that would be used to enforce socialist dogma. He mocked the tendency of socialists to mandate what one ate, who one supported and ultimately how one thought.
Unlike, a lot of socialists today who despise the working class and would never care to interact with one of its members, Orwell lived and worked in poverty and genuinely waned to improve the lot of the poor, without turning them into regimented servants of the state. He considered free speech to be the foundation of democracy and an effective defence against the intrusive power of the state.
1984 is Orwell’s timeless classic that just continues to become more frighteningly real in the age of the World Economic Forum, COVID-19 mandates and the authoritarian efforts to eradicate “disinformation.” When you lisen to the words of this book, you are listening to Orwell’s thoughts as denounces collectivism and, conceivably, realizes that socialism is inextricably tied to the state coercion that he despised so much. You are listening to an eerily prophetic description of the age in which we now live.
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