1984 Triggers

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Jan 24, 2022 · 19m

The University of Northampton in England, has informed the world that it has decided that the George Orwell book, 1984, a dystopian novel of tyrannical dictatorship, censorship and thought control, needs a "Trigger Warning" because, as the school says, "students may find some "explicit material offensive and upsetting."

The irony of that move seems to have escaped the faculty of the University of Northampton (go Saints!).

Meanwhile, more and more of the book seems to be predictive in nature rather than reflective. There is a reason for that. Orwell was not a great visionary genius looking…