Midwest Chick's Place

 We have all seen that the cautionary tales of Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm as well as Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 have manifested in today’s world.

The CDC is the Ministry of Truth with their willing media and social media minions.  The Department of Education says that ‘parents are not the primary stakeholders’ in their children’s education (leave that to the NEA and the Government).

Progs and Dems epitomize ‘all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’ since laws and oaths mean nothing to them and they get away scot-free.

Today, people walk around with ‘seashells’ aka earbuds all of the time staring at their phones.  Cancel culture is rampant.  Individual thinking and reasoning, while still legal for now, are discouraged.   There’s too many links to put here–just type in Nicki Minaj and see how many links there are excoriating her for thinking for herself.

“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.” 

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”

And now it seems that the New York Times is adding another book to the mix, James Clavell’s The Children’s Story. 

I read all of the above in either grade or high school.  But one part that has always, to this day, stayed with me from The Children’s Story was the part where the new pretty Communist teacher suggested to the children that because the flag was so pretty, they should all cut it up to take a piece home with them.  Of course when we read it, we were older than the children in the book and knew it was to destroy a symbol of the United States in the minds of those children.  It was obvious.  But then we were taught to think.

But the New York Times had designers actually working on ‘new designs’ for the Flag.  And they tweeted about it proudly.  

And how many millennials or those younger will understand what they are doing?