After Reading
When Two Plus Two Equals Five
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”— George Orwell, 1984 My father once taught me that some thoughts are better left unspoken—kept safely in your heart. I believe this is a profound truth, and perhaps the reason many of us still live peacefully in this world. Yet we all know the pain of suppressing our thoughts, unable to express them. Sometimes they slip out unintentionally, or explode at an unexpected moment. If this were the world of 1984, congratulations—you’ve just committed thoughtcrime. “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.” 1984 depicts an era that exists nowhere in particular time or space, yet the novel has become something many politicians fear. Its dystopian vision repeats...
North Ward