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1984 Gets A Trigger Warning - Orwell Wasn't Woke Enough · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Speaker 1: So from Reclaim the Net, Orwells nineteen eighty four gets
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  Speaker 1: a trigger warning. Authorized addition from the Orwell Estate, So
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  Speaker 1: the seventy fifth anniversary edition of nineteen eighty four gets
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  Speaker 1: a trigger warning. You can't make it up. Life has
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  Speaker 1: become stranger than fiction at this point. This is from
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  Speaker 1: Reclaim the Net. Reject censorship, they say, reject surveillance, Reclaim
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  Speaker 1: your voice. Orwell's nineteen eighty four gets a trigger warning.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy five years later, we're red penciling the warnings instead
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  Speaker 1: of heating them. Orwell's nineteen eighty four, the literary equivalent
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  Speaker 1: of a claxon screaming warning totalitarianism ahead has now been
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  Speaker 1: fitted with a warning. A preface to be precise from
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  Speaker 1: the hand of one Dolan Perkins Valdez, who informs readers
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  Speaker 1: that the books protagonist Winston Smith, holds views about women
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  Speaker 1: that are despicable. Despicable in the work of fiction about
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  Speaker 1: the totalitarian censorship state. Apparently, the fictional character in a
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  Speaker 1: novel about mind control, censorship, and the slow boiling of
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  Speaker 1: individual thought in the stew of state propaganda has now
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  Speaker 1: committed the gravest sin of all. He failed to pass
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  Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five HR Sensitivity Seminar. You can't make
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  Speaker 1: it up. You just can't make it up. These are
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  Speaker 1: the people that are running the institutions now. This is
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  Speaker 1: the people. These are the people that are running academia now,
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  Speaker 1: and the publishing houses. This is the seventy fifth anniversary
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  Speaker 1: edition of nineteen eighty four. That's three quarters of a
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  Speaker 1: century of warning bells, wake up calls, and high school
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  Speaker 1: essays on why Big Brother is bad. And now we're
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  Speaker 1: being told by the publisher Berkeley Books, Berkeley Books, that
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  Speaker 1: the book needs a moral escort to make sure no
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  Speaker 1: one gets the wrong idea. I'm surprised they're not just
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  Speaker 1: promoting it as a blueprint for the perfect society. The
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  Speaker 1: irony is now wearing neon body paint and dancing in
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  Speaker 1: the street. Perkins Valdez opens her commentary with an admission
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  Speaker 1: she read the book and tried to quote enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: novel on its own terms. Good for her, that's usually
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  Speaker 1: how reading works. But then she hits a snag the
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  Speaker 1: line quote he disliked nearly all women, and especially the
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  Speaker 1: young and pretty ones. Now, if you read nineteen eighty four,
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  Speaker 1: you'll understand why. At this point, She confesses she might
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  Speaker 1: have given up on the book entirely had she read
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  Speaker 1: it earlier. In Life nineteen eighty four was not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be an instruction manual T shirt. That's a good one. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Winston Smith, whose life is orchestrated by telescreens, secret police,
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  Speaker 1: and public hangings, who was quite literally erased from existence
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  Speaker 1: for thinking unauthorized thoughts, is now being written off as
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  Speaker 1: a problematic figure for insufficient gender positivity. You can't make
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  Speaker 1: it up, folks, you can't make it up. These are
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  Speaker 1: the people who are shaping young minds. Perkins Valdez also
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  Speaker 1: writes that quote, a sliver of connection can be difficult
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  Speaker 1: for someone like me to find in a novel that
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  Speaker 1: does not speak much to race and ethnicity, noting the
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  Speaker 1: absence of black characters. Yeah, in a book about England,
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  Speaker 1: which was a renamed airstrip one that was written in
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  Speaker 1: what in the nineteen forties. Everything must conform, everything must
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  Speaker 1: conform to wokeness. Oh, by the way, a wise man
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  Speaker 1: once said, everything woke turns to shit. Let's not forget
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  Speaker 1: this is fiction. A warning, a nightmare, the literary equivalent
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  Speaker 1: of being screamed at by a man in a trench
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  Speaker 1: coat under a flickering street lamp. It's meant to scare
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  Speaker 1: the living hell out of you. But of course, if
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  Speaker 1: you're woke, you have to see everything through the race
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  Speaker 1: Marxism lens. It's impossible to just read nineteen eighty four
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  Speaker 1: and say, oh boy, I don't want to contribute to
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  Speaker 1: my society becoming that. You can't do that. You have
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  Speaker 1: to write a preface to it. You have to write
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  Speaker 1: a preface to the book demanding it be more like that,
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  Speaker 1: the book itself be more like what the book is
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  Speaker 1: warning about. I know this is insane. Let's not forget
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  Speaker 1: this is fiction. Okay. It's not that Winston Smith is
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  Speaker 1: a misogynist. It's that the entire book is about a
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  Speaker 1: society where even noticing the difference is illegal. The whole
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  Speaker 1: plot is a lesson in what happened when the state
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  Speaker 1: starts dictating what is acceptable to think and say. And
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  Speaker 1: now we've offended a preface that effectively tells readers what's
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  Speaker 1: acceptable to feel. Yeah, so George Orwell didn't write the
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  Speaker 1: book with explicitly modern, woke, radical left themes approving approvingly.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the book is kind of you can see
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  Speaker 1: actually in modern leftism, A lot of what George, orwell,
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  Speaker 1: or most of what he was warning about. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: if that's why she was really offended. But yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: can't make it up like life is stranger than fiction,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe at some point even more terrible than fiction.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we'll have to find out anyway. That's all
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