Friday, April 9, 2021

Orwell, Atheism, and Totalitarianism

Carson Holloway on 1984 by George Orwell, at The Public Discourse.

"The Party insists on teaching its members that there is no external, objective reality apart from subjective human consciousness. This is the lesson Winston has to learn the hard way (under torture) after trying to think for himself. Trying to think for yourself implies that there is something 'out there' for you to think about, some 'truth' that you might be able to find, on the basis of which you might be able to critique approved opinion."

See Orwell, Animal Farm, in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 60.

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