1984 ON THE POTOMAC
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Some may object to the contention that current DOJ is, in some ways, analogous to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984. But comparing the removal of Jan. 6 documents from DOJ website to the Ministry of Truth’s memory hole, while imperfect, is not absurd. In 1984, inconvenient documents from the past are physically destroyed so the ruling Party line can no longer be contradicted. In a digital administrative state, however, incinerators are unnecessary. A vanished page and a broken search result can accomplish something disturbingly similar.
