Woke Writes Ingsoc
The Guardian newspaper out of Great Britain is reporting that the estate of Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, has granted permission to rewrite his classic dystopian nightmare book NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR from a feminist perspective.
The tale is reimagined from the viewpoint of Winston Smith’s lover Julia, who operates a writing machine in the Fiction Department of the Ministry of Truth.
Note the irony.
In the seventy years since publication, the novel has never been out of print. Nonetheless, a feminist version needed for political correction. The Junior Anti-Sex League demands goodthink.
Let us ponder.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
How, praytell, will the Woke reword this passage to defang it of its grimly grinning, gallows’ humor in a book rewritten to suit the eternal present in which the Left is always right?
Because the irony is greater if it is left intact by the unselfaware inhumanoids reworking the classic to suit their own private version of Thought Police.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
