{"id":4596,"date":"2019-06-11T13:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/11\/1984-by-george-orwell-on-its-enduring-relevance-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:48:04","slug":"1984-by-george-orwell-on-its-enduring-relevance-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/11\/1984-by-george-orwell-on-its-enduring-relevance-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"1984, by George Orwell: On Its Enduring Relevance &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4595 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aa252bbd37269361238628164577.jpg?resize=625%2C737&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aa252bbd37269361238628164577.jpg?w=672&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aa252bbd37269361238628164577.jpg?resize=127%2C150&amp;ssl=1 127w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aa252bbd37269361238628164577.jpg?resize=255%2C300&amp;ssl=1 255w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aa252bbd37269361238628164577.jpg?resize=624%2C735&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>W<span class=\"smallcaps\" style=\"box-sizing:inherit; font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:1px; text-transform:lowercase; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" lyontext\",georgia,serif; font-size:19.8px; font-style:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\">e stagger under<span> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" lyontext\",georgia,serif; font-size:19.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">the daily load of doublethink pouring from Trump, his enablers in the Inner Party, his mouthpieces in the Ministry of Truth, and his fanatical supporters among the proles. Spotting doublethink in ourselves is much harder. \u201cTo see what is in front of one\u2019s nose needs a constant struggle,\u201d<span> <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orwellfoundation.com\/the-orwell-foundation\/orwell\/essays-and-other-works\/in-front-of-your-nose\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'11',r'None'\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; font-family: \" lyon text\", georgia, serif; font-size: 19.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: font-variant-caps: font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Orwell wrote<\/a><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" lyontext\",georgia,serif; font-size:19.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">. In front of my nose, in the world of enlightened and progressive people where I live and work, a different sort of doublethink has become pervasive. It\u2019s not the claim that true is fake or that two plus two makes five. Progressive doublethink\u2014which has grown worse in reaction to the right-wing kind\u2014creates a more insidious unreality because it operates in the name of all that is good. Its key word is<span> <\/span><\/span><i style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \" lyon text\", georgia, serif; font-size: 19.8px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">justice<\/i><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" lyontext\",georgia,serif; font-size:19.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">\u2014a word no one should want to live without. But today the demand for justice forces you to accept contradictions that are the essence of doublethink.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/07\/1984-george-orwell\/590638\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/07\/1984-george-orwell\/590638\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stagger under the daily load of doublethink pouring from Trump, his enablers in the Inner Party, his mouthpieces in the Ministry of Truth, and his fanatical supporters among the proles. Spotting doublethink in ourselves is much harder. \u201cTo see what is in front of one\u2019s nose needs a constant struggle,\u201d Orwell wrote. In front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1c8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}