War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength and Kamala Was Never Border Czar.

What will be thrown down the Memory Hole next?

I could not do better for an opening than to quote my son in describing how the media has done a 180-degree turn in favor of their suddenly proclaimed Joan of Arc as the “savior of Our Democracy” - he said he was simply in awe of the speed at which they have turned on a dime and have even started changing history. I am well aware of the fact that I am probably only about the one-millionth person to have observed the resemblance to Orwell’s dystopian world of 1984, but how else does one explain an institution that employs, right before our very eyes in 2024, the exact mechanism Orwell created for that fictional year 40 years ago— the memory hole? That handy device for assuring that whatever news is published is fully in line with “The Party” and its edicts, and all other troublesome facts are thrust down the memory hole by proles like Winston Smith. Read these two excerpts from the identical publication and tell me we are not living in the world Orwell thought was fictional:

Here is how Orwell described this fiendish process, a description I respectfully submit is most apt in discussing the current state of the corporate media (it is from my torn, tattered, and oft-referred-to copy of this classic novel):

How long will it take — now that we have officially dropped into the dystopian world of memory holes, Newspeak, thought police, telescreens, Room 101, and Two Minutes Hate — for us to be told that Kah-Mah-Lah is a descendant of dirt-poor African slaves; that her views are just as moderate as those of the 2020 version of Joe Biden in the basement? That it is a vicious lie to even suggest that she urged the mobs in Minneapolis to “continue” rioting; or that she was instrumental in setting up a fund for bail for all those fine, upstanding American citizens who burned down a large part of the city “in honor of” that other notable icon George Floyd? That it is a contemptible libel to even think, much less suggest, that she got her start “the old-fashioned way” by becoming Willie Brown’s eye candy? It could never happen here, you say? Perhaps it would be helpful to remember the three slogans of The Party:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

It might not be a bad idea to spend some time in the very near future brushing up on my old paperback. We might be seeing many more “real life” scenarios from 1984 springing into being in the next few months.

God Help us.