{"id":11422,"date":"2018-09-25T11:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:54:54","slug":"we-are-living-nineteen-eighty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/we-are-living-nineteen-eighty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Living Nineteen Eighty-Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-634108\" class=\"article-single post-634108 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-culture category-law-the-courts category-pc-culture category-politics-policy section-article\" data-component=\"articleView\">\n<div class=\"section-content--full\">\n<div class=\"section-content--primary\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><span class=\"drop\">G<\/span>eorge Orwell\u2019s 1949 dystopian novel\u00a0<em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>\u00a0is no longer fiction. We are living it right now.<\/p>\n<p>Google techies planned to massage Internet searches to emphasize correct thinking. A member of the so-called deep state, in an anonymous op-ed, brags that its \u201cresistance\u201d is undermining an elected president. The FBI, CIA, DOJ, and NSC were all weaponized in 2016 to ensure that the proper president would be elected \u2014 the choice adjudicated by properly progressive ideology. Wearing a wire is now redefined as simply flipping on an iPhone and recording your boss, boy- or girlfriend, or co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>But never has the reality that we are living in a surreal age been clearer than during the strange cycles of Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>In Orwell\u2019s world of 1984 Oceania, there is no longer a sense of due process, free inquiry, rules of evidence and cross examination, much less a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. Instead, regimented ideology \u2014 the supremacy of state power to control all aspects of one\u2019s life to enforce a fossilized idea of mandated quality \u2014 warps everything from the use of language to private life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/09\/kavanaugh-nomination-battle-like-orwells-1984\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review George Orwell\u2019s 1949 dystopian novel\u00a0Nineteen Eighty-Four\u00a0is no longer fiction. We are living it right now. Google techies planned to massage Internet searches to emphasize correct thinking. A member of the so-called deep state, in an anonymous op-ed, brags that its \u201cresistance\u201d is undermining an elected president. The FBI, CIA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1193,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Ye","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9832,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/californias-polarization\/","url_meta":{"origin":11422,"position":0},"title":"California\u2019s Polarization","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Richard Sousa Monday, February 6, 2017 With all due respect, I believe my colleague Sam Abrams has it all wrong. 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