{"id":131249,"date":"2020-06-03T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131249"},"modified":"2020-06-03T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:40:28","slug":"rod-dreher-language-memory-soft-totalitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131249","title":{"rendered":"Rod Dreher: Language, Memory, &#038; Soft Totalitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/language-memory-soft-totalitarianism-live-not-by-lies\/\">Rod writes<\/a>: &#8220;A professor pointed out to me today that one theme of Orwell\u2019s Nineteen Eighty-Four that\u2019s becoming quite relevant today is how the most oppressive regime of control does not apply to the proles, but to members of the Party. The more elite you are, the more coercive the system is. It\u2019s true in hard totalitarianism, and it\u2019s especially true in soft totalitarianism. 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