[ExI] Orwell's "1984" now has an introductory "Trigger Warning"

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] Orwell's "1984" now has an introductory "Trigger Warning"

>...The USA discovers irony by adding a trigger warning to a novel about thought control!
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BillK

Ja, well really it is a marketing tool about thought control.  But hey, it worked on me.  Orwell has been triggering me ever since I first read 1984 in 1976.

<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/07/orwells-1984-now-comes-with-trigger-warning/>
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Orwell’s 1984 now comes with ‘trigger warning’.
>...Author has been convicted of ‘thought crimes’ he warned about in novel, critic complains.
07 June 2025

>...“We’re not yet in a world where books and classic books are being excised or eliminated,” Kirn added, but warned that the Orwell estate-approved edition of 1984 had been “published with an apology for itself”.
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Ah but we are, and have been for a long time.  Mark Twain wrote Huck Finn, which is an anti-slavery screed.  It has been alternately banned and required curriculum for decades.

BillK, Orwell was one of your lads as I recall.  His writing impacted me like none other.  That man had it figured out: to lust for control over other humans is a very basic human instinct.  It has been bred into us by natural selection, and it is part of our evolutionary psychology.  The US government has been in a desperate power struggle for as long as it has existed, with a steep escalation of hostilities in recent years as it approaches insolvency.

Regarding that last comment, I don't take a bit of pleasure in being proven right.

spike
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