Orwell’s Two Minutes of Hate and Affirmative Consent in Today’s Cancel Culture

Two Minutes of Hate. When I first read George Orwell’s 1984 as a kid, I was confused by the scene in the movie theater, where the masses are watching video clips of military helicopters destroying boats full of unarmed refugees, and then projecting their hatred onto the regime’s worst enemy, Goldstein. Why show the army mowing down … Read more