Episode 5: George Orwell

The gang talks about 1984 author George Orwell, wonder why our culture is so susceptible to short stories, and discuss why James Bond should be thrown onto the trash pile of history.

 

Digressions include:

• Dune is not open source
• One Clever Trick to Avoiding the Mile Run
• Fireside Chats about USB
• Fireside Chats about Bach Cantatas

 

Music by Daniel Griggs.

 

Reading List

• John Molyneux Animal Farm revisited: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/molyneux/1989/xx/orwell.html - 
• Gordon Beadle  George Orwell and the American Conservatives: https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&context=suscholar
• Louis Menand -  "Honest, Decent, Wrong:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/honest-decent-wrong
• Ron Charles - "Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian" https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/orwell-1984-conservatives/2021/01/11/e80ce30e-5446-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html
• https://libcom.org/article/orwell-quotes-right-wingers-never-mention
• Rachel Klein Please Stop Comparing Things to “1984:" https://electricliterature.com/please-stop-comparing-things-to-1984/

Non reading list

https://www.foxnews.com/media/charlie-kirk-orwells-1984-is-the-instruction-manual-for-the-left-theyre-criminalizing-speech