{"id":20167,"date":"2011-01-21T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=20167"},"modified":"2011-01-21T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:00:57","slug":"george-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/01\/21\/george-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7n4EDKUB9uo&amp;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><em>From the 1985 film adaptation of <\/em>1984: <em>The principle of perpetual war explained (video not embedded: click on the image and hit the YouTube link)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1950 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Orwell\" target=\"_blank\">George Orwell<\/a> died (born 1903).<\/p>\n<p>Frye in <em>The Educated Imagination<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The essential thing is the power of choice.\u00a0 In wartime this power is greatly curtailed, and we resign ourselves to living by half-truths for the duration.\u00a0 In a totalitarian state the competition in propaganda largely disappears, and consequently the power of imaginative choice is sealed off.\u00a0 In our hatred and fear of war and totalitarian government, one central element is a sense of claustrophobia that the imagination develops when it isn&#8217;t allowed to function properly.\u00a0 This is the aspect of tyranny that&#8217;s so prominently displayed in George Orwell&#8217;s <em>1984<\/em>.\u00a0 Orwell even goes so far as to suggest that the only way to make tyranny permanent and unshakable, the only way in other words to create a literal hell on earth, is deliberately to debase our language by turning our speech into an automatic gabble.\u00a0 The fear of being reduced to such a life is a genuine fear, but of course as soon as we express it in hysterical cliches we are in the same state ourselves.\u00a0 As the poet William Blake says in describing something very similar, we become what we behold.\u00a0 (CW 21, 490)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7n4EDKUB9uo&amp;feature=related From the 1985 film adaptation of 1984: The principle of perpetual war explained (video not embedded: click on the image and hit the YouTube link) On this date in 1950 George Orwell died (born 1903). 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