“The purpose of all [new movements] was to arrest progress and freeze history at a chosen moment. The familiar pendulum swing was to happen once more, and then stop. As usual, the High were to be turned out by the Middle, who would then become the High; but this time, by conscious strategy, the High […]
“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.” I have recently been reading George Orwell’s 1984. It is quite the disturbing vision of how our world might go in the future, though it’s obviously taking longer than Orwell thought it might. I came across a section I thought might be “fun” to share with […]
It’s controversial holiday time, again. Yaaayyy!!! Columbus Day is celebrated as a U.S. federal holiday (since 1936) in honor of the intrepid explorer Christopher Columbus’ initial landing in the Bahamas and, therefore, the Americas. The facts that Columbus was a) not the first non-native to “find” the New World (ask Leif Erickson) and that b) […]