{"id":42946,"date":"2018-04-26T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42946"},"modified":"2018-04-06T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:07:55","slug":"george-orwell-and-1984-how-freedom-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/26\/george-orwell-and-1984-how-freedom-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell and <em>1984<\/em>: How Freedom Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37N0aFmO19o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Academy of Ideas<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 30 Dec 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this video we explore why Orwell believed totalitarianism was a great risk in the modern West, contrasting his ideas with those of Aldous Huxley, author of <em>Brave New World<\/em>.<br \/>\n===<br \/>\nGet the transcript \u25ba<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/academyofideas.com\/2017\/12\/george-orwell-1984-how-freedom-dies\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/academyofideas.com\/2017\/12\/george-orwell-1984-how-freedom-dies\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy of Ideas Published on 30 Dec 2017 In this video we explore why Orwell believed totalitarianism was a great risk in the modern West, contrasting his ideas with those of Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. === Get the transcript \u25ba https:\/\/academyofideas.com\/2017\/12\/george-orwell-1984-how-freedom-dies\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,10,53],"tags":[780,457,354,76],"class_list":["post-42946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-communism","tag-fascism","tag-georgeorwell","tag-socialism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-baG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42948,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42946\/revisions\/42948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}