George Orwell

Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Understand George Orwell’s 1984

September 14, 2017 by Robert J. Avrech Leave a Comment

I have not read Hillary Clinton’s latest ghost-written tome in which she blames everyone but herself for her loss to President Trump.

But I have read a few quotes, and this one about Orwell’s classic novel 1984 actually made me laugh out loud.

Penn & Teller: Gun Control is … Expletive Deleted

February 17, 2014 by Robert J. Avrech 8 Comments

Gloria Grahame exercises her Second Amendment rights.

Democrats insist that murdering children in the womb is legal and moral because it’s a matter of privacy.

And yet Democrats also insist that it’s my responsibility to pay for this mass murder — mostly of black babies, which constitutes not just a war on babies, but a race war.

So: abortion is private, but not really.

Democrats inform us that this inverted logic is in the Constitution.

I can’t find it. Anywhere.

All Animals Are Equal, Unless They Are Democrat Animals

January 6, 2014 by Robert J. Avrech 15 Comments

In George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” the pigs exert total control over the farm by passing one simple law:

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Orwell’s novel was a devastating critique of Communism. But the Democrat party, with its totalitarian impulses no longer disguised or in check, are the new pigs, the new rulers of the post-modern American Animal Farm.

ObamaCare reduces health insurance and medical care—complex, voluntary interactions—to a one-size-fits-all system. The American people are moved around like chess pieces. This is the DNA of the left; to create a universe of dumb bureaucratic systems that impose rigid order on millions of individuals.

This is not to say that the state should never intervene. For instance, we have empirical evidence that without polio vaccines, children will get this dreaded disease. Thus, it makes sense for government to mandate vaccines.

But the empirical evidence for s state controlled health care system is that it results in second rate medical care for the majority of citizens. We need only look to Great Britain, Cuba, or the socialized medicine of the Arab world, to see quite clearly that state controlled health care does not work for a majority of citizens. Not to mention the ruinous taxes and deficits that will, eventually, bankrupt the state.

In fact, the Democrats who passed ObamaCare were well aware of the misery they were about to impose on the American people. We know this because the Democrats authored specific provisions within ObamaCare to protect themselves against ObamaCare.

Welcome to the Democrat Animal Farm.

Person Of The Year: George Orwell

December 16, 2013 by Robert J. Avrech 50 Comments

Seraphic Secret was asked to participate in the Watcher’s Forum. Every week on Monday morning , invited guests weigh in with their opinions on a major issue of the day, the culture, or topics of daily life.

This week’s question: Whom Would You Name For Person Of The Year?

George Orwell's novel, 1984, is a prophetic work of literature. — George Orwell’s novel, *1984*, is a prophetic work of literature.

Seraphic Secret’s Person of the Year is George Orwell.

Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, was published 64 years ago. For Americans living under Obama, this prophetic novel is more relevant than ever.

1984 imagines a country called Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) a province of a super state called Oceania. The country is under the control of a central party, guided by a quasi-divine leader, Big Brother. The government justifies their oppressive rule in the name of the collective good. All individualism is crushed, and those who think independently are guilty of Thoughtcrimes.

Orwell’s understood that those who control language control culture. Distort the meaning of words and you warp the mind into Doublethink. Ultimately, thought and behavior are colonized by the bureaucratic state.