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RE: 9 Books That Will Turn Your Kids Into Anarchists
I'm not prepared to reject the idea out of hand--having read some of Orwell's other books, I know he was a colossal statist. I'd welcome reading your arguments. :)
@lesliestarrohara Animal Farm was a complaint about the Soviet "excesses." The hypocrisy and brutality were a bit much for the ivory-tower Fabianists. The purpose of 1984 was to show that resistance was futile. O'Brien reveals to Winston Smith that The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism was written by the party's leadership.
Winston's relationship with O'Brien was based upon thinking that he was a member of the Brotherhood. Fast forward to the world that we know, this was virtually the strategy and tactics which were employed in the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
In critical thinking, one must vet, vet, vet and apply the rudiments upon his/her self to test all self-developed theories and new information. We see gatekeepers, today for ideology-isms, with the likes of Noam Chomsky and Drug-Rush Limbaugh, defining their respective linear domains. It is planned opposition on full view.
Wrote a post about it.
@gwiss Good stuff; gave you an upvote over there. I am in the process of laying this all out in detail, but not the Three Mile Island kind (TMI). I've posted the first four parts in a series on the real American history and the fifth should be posted tonight.