George Orwell Warned Us
“We live in a society where there is overwhelming distrust of institutions that are supposed to give us a shared sense of reality.” – Bari Weiss (July, 2021)
Freedom of speech is being severely censored by political correctness which is simply social peer pressure and bullying. It’s being accomplished through the deliberate, determined creation of a “shared sense of reality” created by newspapers, radio and television. The very sources of information, on which we came to depend throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have in recent years, betrayed our trust by conspiring with the leftist elite to control information.
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
“Those who control the information control the people.” Its not a new idea. Those words come from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, first published in 1945. In the novel, a plan to establish a utopian form of socialism is subverted, as is generally inevitable, by a dictator. It’s difficult to name a dictator who didn’t begin his career claiming to be a liberator. Napoleon, Stalin, Castro and Hitler – even Mugabe – were initially seen by their followers as saviours.
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a devastating critique of totalitarianism, was published four years later. In that novel, the author wrote, “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Sound familiar?
In Canada, historical figures like Sir John A. MacDonald and Henry Dundas are being vilified. Statues are being torn down by enraged mobs who accept the leftist propaganda as truth. History is being rewritten right under our noses.
And, it’s not simply misinformation and the twisting of facts that we must fear; it’s the media’s blatant refusal to disclose information that counters the so-called truth. It’s what they’re not reporting and the stories they entirely ignore.
For example, are you aware that Pastor Artur Pawlowski was refused bail and incarcerated for fifty-one days without a trial? Allegedly, he “incited mischief” while protesting against the Canadian government’s COVID-19 mandates. It’s a newsworthy story of a political prisoner who’s rights were trampled by “a shared sense of reality” yet the traditional media continues to ignore the story. Pawlowski was threatened and underwent severe deprivation while in a Canadian prison. He witnessed beatings and was in constant fear because some prisoners confided that guards had encouraged them to attack him.
Search Pawlowski’s name followed by “Fox News” or “True North” to read about him, because if you search his name on Google, followed by “CBC” you get, “It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search.”
The influenza pandemic, though a medically devastating and tragic world-event, provided one benefit to society. It exposed the extent to which our governments and the media are controlling the narrative. Their response to the grassroots opposition to pandemic mandates has revealed the dire state of freedom in western society. Still, many continue to cling to CNN's and the Government-funded CBC’s version of “truth.”
To the rest of us, the evil underbellies of political leadership and the traditional media have become obvious.
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, does not make you mad.” – George Orwell.
Freedom of speech is being severely censored by political correctness which is simply social peer pressure and bullying. It’s being accomplished through the deliberate, determined creation of a “shared sense of reality” created by newspapers, radio and television. The very sources of information, on which we came to depend throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have in recent years, betrayed our trust by conspiring with the leftist elite to control information.
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
“Those who control the information control the people.” Its not a new idea. Those words come from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, first published in 1945. In the novel, a plan to establish a utopian form of socialism is subverted, as is generally inevitable, by a dictator. It’s difficult to name a dictator who didn’t begin his career claiming to be a liberator. Napoleon, Stalin, Castro and Hitler – even Mugabe – were initially seen by their followers as saviours.
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a devastating critique of totalitarianism, was published four years later. In that novel, the author wrote, “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Sound familiar?
In Canada, historical figures like Sir John A. MacDonald and Henry Dundas are being vilified. Statues are being torn down by enraged mobs who accept the leftist propaganda as truth. History is being rewritten right under our noses.
And, it’s not simply misinformation and the twisting of facts that we must fear; it’s the media’s blatant refusal to disclose information that counters the so-called truth. It’s what they’re not reporting and the stories they entirely ignore.
For example, are you aware that Pastor Artur Pawlowski was refused bail and incarcerated for fifty-one days without a trial? Allegedly, he “incited mischief” while protesting against the Canadian government’s COVID-19 mandates. It’s a newsworthy story of a political prisoner who’s rights were trampled by “a shared sense of reality” yet the traditional media continues to ignore the story. Pawlowski was threatened and underwent severe deprivation while in a Canadian prison. He witnessed beatings and was in constant fear because some prisoners confided that guards had encouraged them to attack him.
Search Pawlowski’s name followed by “Fox News” or “True North” to read about him, because if you search his name on Google, followed by “CBC” you get, “It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search.”
The influenza pandemic, though a medically devastating and tragic world-event, provided one benefit to society. It exposed the extent to which our governments and the media are controlling the narrative. Their response to the grassroots opposition to pandemic mandates has revealed the dire state of freedom in western society. Still, many continue to cling to CNN's and the Government-funded CBC’s version of “truth.”
To the rest of us, the evil underbellies of political leadership and the traditional media have become obvious.
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, does not make you mad.” – George Orwell.
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