{"id":3740,"date":"2019-06-03T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/03\/make-orwell-fiction-again\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:46:18","slug":"make-orwell-fiction-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/03\/make-orwell-fiction-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Orwell Fiction Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad363cad7200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orwell Fiction Again\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad363cad7200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad363cad7200c-500wi\" title=\"Orwell Fiction Again\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pelosi.house.gov\/issues\/health-care\" target=\"_self\">This<\/a>&#0160;from Nancy Pelosi&#39;s website (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2010, ensures that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and significantly reduces long-term health care costs. This historic legislation, in the league of Social Security and Medicare, will lead to healthier lives,&#0160;<strong>while providing the American people with more liberty to pursue their hopes and dreams.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">This is another good example of an Orwellian use of language.&#0160; Americans love liberty and so Pelosi, in an attempt to deceive, works &#39;liberty&#39; into her statement,&#0160; advancing a claim of Orwellian absurdity, namely, that limitations on the liberty of individuals and private entities are in reality enhancements of liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">War is peace. &#0160; Slavery is freedom.&#0160; Less liberty is more liberty.&#0160; Dependence on government is self-reliance. Fascist thugs are anti-fascist. The Orwellian template: X, which is not Y,&#0160;<em>is<\/em>&#0160;Y.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This&#0160;from Nancy Pelosi&#39;s website (emphasis added): The Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2010, ensures that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and significantly reduces long-term health care costs. This historic legislation, in the league of Social Security and Medicare, will lead to healthier lives,&#0160;while providing the American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/03\/make-orwell-fiction-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make Orwell Fiction Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}