By SI Filings
Jun
01
2021
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it..." - Ben Edwards
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The Rub
Two points in rejoinder:
So, while I agree with Orwell, his defense of intellectual freedom is actually canceled by the very arguments he used to defend it.
Orwell was a modernist. He
Orwell was a modernist. He would have had no tolerance for the post-modern arguments that as you say cancel him. A roughly equivalent modern parallel was, his follower, Hitchens.