Orwell: she’s my self-help guru

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered.” I read these powerful words just the other day in a motivational self-help book by George Orwell. It contains some incredible recommendations about how we ought to run the world. One of Orwell’s best ideas is a thing called the “Memory Hole” into which we may consign all the horrific elements of our society and wipe them from history. These could include: the Daily Mail, all the Harry Potter novels, non-vegan meals, the Conservative party, Sunderland and Toby Young. Over the past two years, brave activists have followed Orwell’s advice and targeted a number of historical monuments for demolition. One of these…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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