Even Orwell’s own work, it seems, can be tossed down the memory hole nowadays. Consider how much of a woke, bitter, sadistic O’Brien you must be to make killing Orwell your life’s purpose! Whoever infiltrated the Blair family and pulled this off had lots of accomplices.
But, folks, this is the movement and this is what they do. They will infest and “problematize” every cultural component of Western Civilization until it either depletes itself of all its cultural capital, it crumbles under its own weight, or—better yet!—it becomes an invaluable tool for reproducing drones for the woke movement.
The universities today are breeding these kinds of social justice warriors like cockroaches. Remember that one of the key aims of newspeak is to make thoughtcrime not just a crime, but to remove thinking from the public consciousness altogether so that thoughtcrime would become impossible anyhow. Increasingly, you encounter people who can’t even imagine why you would be counter wokecraft. Enfeebled hive minds with full faith in a better world that will emerge if only this one we’ve inherited is entirely replaced by a cabal of our best minds combined with the muscle of a mob of wokesters.
We can eliminate Orwell’s exquisite explanation of power by supplanting it with a new ‘woke’ version. With sad poetic irony we recognize that the novel’s protagonist had precisely that job! -But Winston Smith was merely a dull and dispassionate functionary at the Party, one of a massive staff of clerks erasing the past with the full banality of an omnipotent bureaucratic state authorizing his shoddy existence.
Today’s woke stormtroopers are nothing like Smith.
They are fired with revolutionary passion and are at the tip of the spear waging war (which is peace, remember) upon the civilization that took two thousand years to build and which gives them the material comfort to join the crusade to raze it. They have their deep-seated resentments, their marching orders, and they get their fix by watching our cultural inheritance, our heritage, our legacy burn as it drops down the memory hole.
If you’ve not yet read 1984, or it’s been a while, this might be a good time to do so.