- 09 Apr 2018 00:07
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The solution to 1984 is 1973!
My son recently told me that Orwell's 1984 had been removed from the English reading list of the national education syllabus. I consider that fairly disturbing in itself but then it got me wondering why Gulag Archipelago hasn't ever been on the list? Orwell's book is a powerful intellectual vaccine against totalitarian collectivism but on the other hand it is just fiction and therefore open to the counter claim that it is just "fiction". Gulag Archipelago is however testimony by eye witnesses of actual rather than theoretical totalitarian collectivism and therefore should make for the stronger case against it.
They say those that are ignorant of history are condemned to repeat it, so to prevent the chief horrors of the 20th century shouldn't our youth be inoculated with the gulag archipelago as well as 1984?
They say those that are ignorant of history are condemned to repeat it, so to prevent the chief horrors of the 20th century shouldn't our youth be inoculated with the gulag archipelago as well as 1984?
The solution to 1984 is 1973!