Orwell’s vision of the nationalist tendency – the group’s avoidance of challenging information and celebration of confirmatory information – now ran rampant. The notion of doubt faded away. In its place came a sense of fevered moral certainty. The idea that truth was something people needed to find, something to be searched for amid the clutter and noise of human error, something to reach for through debate, became old fashioned. It was a Victorian relic.
