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I have to shout, because liberals have pulled the wool over people's eyes
That's been my experience at Wikipedia, where minority views on controversial topics are squelched completely while the censors claim that being neutral '''requires''' them to do this. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 19:49, 30 August 2008 (EDT)
That's been my experience at Wikipedia, where minority views on controversial topics are squelched completely while the censors claim that being neutral '''requires''' them to do this. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 19:49, 30 August 2008 (EDT)
==Orwell's precise views==
Socialists persist in portraying Orwell as supporting their views. They like to argue that he made no criticism of the world's largest experiments with socialism (such as the ill-fated [[Soviet Union]]) and pretend that his pointed critiques of Communism in ''1984'' and ''Animal Farm'' were intended as general criticisms, more applicable to England and the USA.
* and a frightening tale of how people can change the meaning of words and commandments over time to suit a totalitarian regime
I think this view of Orwell is naive or intentionally deceptive. Orwell like socialism as an ideal, but he was aware of how hard it would be for real people (who are so selfish) to put into effect.
* Orwell believed that although socialism is good as an ideal, it can never be successfully adopted due to uncontrollable sins of human nature. [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/col-afcp.htm]
Let's put more about liberal revisionism into this article. [[Walter Cronkite]]'s introduction to ''198411 (assuming there was no ghostwriter) is a case in point. He succeeds in drawing the reader's attention completely away from Communist countries and hammers home the point that ''1984'' is nothing but a warning to the West. He should have said that the Soviet Union itself is a warning to the West.
But Communist propaganda has been so successful that people to this day think that Hitler was the epitome of murderous tyrants. They ignore Stalin and Mao who were ten times worse, and don't even know they are igoring them. '''This is precisely the point of ''1984''!''' --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 16:21, 16 August 2011 (EDT)