{"id":2187,"date":"2012-09-30T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2015-02-17T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:53:09","slug":"2012-09-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-09-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwell Was An Optimist: The Political Landscape of the U.S. Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Paul George<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">September 30, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2198\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2198\" title=\"ForumFinal120930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ForumFinal1209303-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ForumFinal1209303-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ForumFinal1209303.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 85vw, 282px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this talk, Paul George uses as a framework George Orwell&#8217;s famous themes of &#8220;war is peace&#8221;, &#8220;freedom is slavery&#8221;, and &#8220;ignorance is strength&#8221;, as a way of examining modern-day America, which translates to endless war, the national security state, and propaganda (along with lousy journalism).<\/p>\n<p>Paul George has been a peace activist and grassroots organizer for nearly forty years. He is the Director of Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peaceandjustice.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.peaceandjustice.org<\/a>) in Palo Alto, CA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/54691826\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/54691826\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-09-30) &#8211; Orwell Was An Optimist: The Political Landscape of the U.S. Today (Paul George)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul George September 30, 2012 In this talk, Paul George uses as a framework George Orwell&#8217;s famous themes of &#8220;war is peace&#8221;, &#8220;freedom is slavery&#8221;, and &#8220;ignorance is strength&#8221;, as a way of examining modern-day America, which translates to endless war, the national security state, and propaganda (along with lousy journalism). Paul George has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-09-30\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orwell Was An Optimist: The Political Landscape of the U.S. Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[39,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7546,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/7546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}