1984

Let’s have a Disinformation Czar, says no one! Except for our current elected leaders!!! The current administration has pushed for a Disinformation Governance Board. Wow, so much for the 1st Amendment. Let’s toss that out the window. Wait, we are in America, right? At least, I thought so. …

Everywhere we look, the shadow of politics waves back. It stares us in the face from running water, polluted air and the consistency of gravel in our roads. It is only when its tangibility begins to wear a cloak of invisibility that one must worry. This aspect of its dark…

1984 by George Orwell was a book I read a few years back when I had decided that it was time for me to start reading at least a few of the classics. I had always loved reading but I usually gave up on books if I didn’t find them…

Asteroids, seeping from my eyes. — Abandoned. Left on the side of the road. Dark. Stars fill the sky. The license plate fades away from my adjusting pupils. Left to my own thoughts, I crisscross my legs. Sitting in the middle of a dark road. Wondering why you left me here. Alone. My new world. Alone. Don’t only bad people become abandoned? Did I do something? We packed our bags. A beach trip. With you.

No writer from the last century remains topical in their literary work on politics like George Orwell (the pen name for British author Eric Arthur Blair). Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, remains relevant in political discourse around the world, long after it was written. While some people may take the view…