Canceled
How do you cancel a person, place, thing, event or culture? Why would you want to? The answer is more nefarious than the act of canceling. I keep coming back to George Orwells Nineteen Eighty Four . Nineteen Eighty Four was influenced by Joe Stalin , one of the most brutal and repressive tyrants in history. (The Chinese have him beat ) I don't think we are headed towards the world George Orwell described so well over 70 years ago,... we are there! Let us delve into the world of Winston Smith , a man whose job it was to cancel people or " unpersons ". " Winston Smith works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth , where his job is to rewrite historical documents so they match the constantly changing current party line. This involves revising newspaper articles and doctoring photographs—mostly to remove "unpersons", people w...