OK, here are some books on the top of Amazon’s best-seller list as of earlier this week.
No. 1 is “1984” by George Orwell, No. 8 is Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here.”, No. 23 is “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley., No. 30 is “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury.
After a week or so of the Trump presidency, our “progressive” friends are busy buying up copies of these books to help them explain America’s apparent descent into fascism.
No. 1 is “1984” by George Orwell, No. 8 is Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here.”, No. 23 is “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley., No. 30 is “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury.
I hate to disappoint our friends in advance, but if they read carefully they will see themselves not as the victims in these books, but as the oppressors – at least in the three classics among them.
Lewis’ book is crude and forgettable, but the other three have endured because they speak of threats to the social order that are timeless and universal..........In his timeless 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell reflected on their sales tricks. “Political language,” Orwell argued, was “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”...........Read more
Lewis’ book is crude and forgettable, but the other three have endured because they speak of threats to the social order that are timeless and universal..........In his timeless 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell reflected on their sales tricks. “Political language,” Orwell argued, was “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”...........Read more
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