It has been 80 years to the day since the publication of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The book is even more relevant today, given that the current U.S. Administration is trying its best to turn that novella into a documentary.
One particular quote from the book jumps out at me:
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
The self-evident truth of that statement was, until recently, simply taken as common sense in the U.S. But now things are different, as we have recently learned.
Telling people what they do not want to hear can now get you disappeared, and sent off somewhere to be tortured. To paraphrase Sinclair Lewis, it can happen here.