Wretchard,
I fear that, inadvertently, Orwell’s profligate penning though the thirties and forties may have provided a convenient play-book to the West’s enemies for getting their ‘armies’ over the gates to the Anglo-Saxon, epistemological world.

I can’t help but notice how many of the Left’s modern memes perfectly mirror memes that Orwell wrote would threaten the Englanders’, and our, world. The Left only needed to absorb Orwell’s verse, and then reverse-engineer the proper, counter-codes.

In this the Left’s propaganda resembles the Preon, the unprocessable DNA analog that, because it is the perfect “trans” mirror of functional DNA, clogs-up animal cells’ processes for replicating and decoding the proper “cis”-configured DNA. The result in humans is “Mad Cow Disease.” In a Western republic, the result is pacifism, political correctness and the breakdown of individualism: all steps in the path to the rise of the centralized welfare state.

I am a fervent admirer of Orwell’s prescience, but, just like the very smart kid who talked too much, Orwell may have provided the best template for understanding the Liberal Westerner’s world, and for countering it.

I’ve been rereading his essays this last month, and this thought struck me like a lead weight. Had to share…
-Steve