President trump signed an order establishing a commission to promote patriotic education. That same day a Panel Discussed History Education in the United States. The white house hosted and provided this video. This is a panel on the recovery of the history of our country which is being distorted and we have several experts who know about the distortion and history. We will talk about them and people correcting history. Stake andself its at freedom is at stake, but also humanity is at stake in this argument. I am teaching a course on totalitarian novels. 1984 Winston Smiths job is to rewrite history. Changes,e the party contemporary or old, every written reference in every book and article and every encyclopedia and every publication is corrected and the old version is burned. The whole thing is reprinted a new. It must be an enormous effort, the main work of the regime of 1984. He does not fully understand why they do that, but he learned in the end, and what the most remarkable themes
Stories that i found circulating in American Culture in the war on terror after 9 11 we captured an american john walker lens and he had all of these front cover news stories and kept getting referred to as brainwashed, serious experts and newspapers were writing about him as having been brainwashed. My first reaction was can people be using this Science Fiction term to be talking about a real person. And then i kept wondering about what sort of work that story was doing or that kind of metaphor of brainwashing and describing the decision to be against america in this moment as unthinkable, as literally something a thinking person could unfathomably do. The manchurian candidate got made and the vision of the body snatchers got made, galactica, the homeland show that having a strong resemblance to the John Walker Lindh stories. So, in my book what i am trying to do is think about that story and why we want to tell it as a literary historian i am trained to think about why we need certai
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[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Shakespeare Theater Company barred Association Annual dinner and mark trial. Before we begin the trial please take time to silence all Electronic Devices that may disrupt this evenings proceedings. Photography of the trial is strictly prohibited. Please join me in welcoming the chair of the barred association, abbe lowell. [applause] good evening. Thanks for joining us. The annual dinner and mark trial event by the Shakespeare Theater Company and barred association, Affinity Group of lawyers and those who support the community to bring the best we can to the stage, tonight after tonights performance is based on production of 1984 presented by the Shakespeare Theater Company a few short months ago which in turn is based on the 1949, that is right, 1949 book by George Orwell predicting what 1984 might look like. You all know the story very well, a countrys government vacuums up unanimous amount of data in the name of National
Trustee abby david lowell. [applause] good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight for the annual dinner and mock trial event presented by the Shakespeare Theater Company and the Affinity Group of lawyers, and those who support the Legal Community to bring the best that we can to the stage a wonderful theater. As you know, tonights performance, tonights trial is based on 1984 which is based on the 1949 book by George Orwell predicting what 1984 might look like. I know i know you all know the story very well. A completely farfetched story where they backup an enormous amount of data in the name of National Security where countrys leader worked worked hard to keep the people scared and divided and encourage people to have daily sessions were they yell their anger and hate against anyone who disagrees with them or the opposition creates resistance by installing an offline medication system not in the mainframe of the government to protect private medication. Maybe not so farfetched. At