The Memory-Holing of Everything, Even George Orwell
From democracy to vaccines to election results to Orwell himself, the rewriting of the past to fit current attitudes has become an incurable mania. In this essay, Matt Taibbi critiques the modern trend of retroactively altering historical narratives to align with current ideologies, revealing that even 1984 now comes with a trigger warning and a lecture on its lack of diversity, and lampoons 1984 Julia, a laughably stupid book meant to “fix” 1984 the way James fixed Huckleberry Finn.
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Adoption Is Good!
In “Adoption Is Good,” Freddie deBoer, my favorite Commie intellectual and an adoptee himself, takes on what I didn’t know but I trust Freddie in saying is the fashionable narrative that paints adoption as inherently traumatic. He argues for a more balanced view, reminding us that while adoption isn’t perfect, it’s a profoundly good thing.
Reading time: 6 minutes
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How Modern Hospitals Put Mothers and Babies at Risk
Did you know that the US has higher maternal mortality rates compared to other developed nations? It does. This article published in The Vigilant Fox critiques contemporary hospital childbirth practices in the US, asserting that they prioritize institutional convenience over maternal and infant well-being.
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Was Nirvana a Rip-Off Group?
I’m hardly an aficionado of the music of the 1990s, but as an occasional consumer, I’ve always had the notion that Nirvana was a group that created a lot of very good music that was at the cutting edge of rock and roll at that time. So I was surprised to come across this article in Far Out Magazine that argues that several of Nirvana’s key songs, including “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “About a Girl,” “Come As You Are,” “Polly,” and “Breed,” were all too similar in many ways to earlier tracks by bands like Blue Öyster Cult, The Cure, Killing Joke, The 4-Skins, and Wipers.
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