History is written by the Victor, they say....

There's no better vindication of his message than that.

I also had to read this miserable theory and it was taught to us by one of us stackers here. We read it for literature and our culprit was Jaques Derrida!

George Orwell! The author of Animal Farm. Thanks! You've taught me another dimension about it to teach to my students.

Its really a crap and it's almost taught everywhere! It's binded to all humanities subjects in college!

In the context of Christianity, which also is being deconstructed I really like what this man said.

~ Chap 4, Death to Deconstruction by Josh Porter

It sums up better than anything I've seen the trend of former Christians "deconstructing" their faith. I put quotes around it because I think it is good and healthy to question authority but to do so with the humility and realization of how dependent we are on those we are subjecting to our judgement. Most don't even seem to understand where the framework they are using came from. We would not even have the frame to use as a guide to judge, without the men we are judging.

There is in general a lack of respect for just how much we owe to those that went before us. Its not as if we built this society and can stand in judgement of all those that have went before. The trends of our time are no different from those that went before. It is not brave to stand with the crowd. When I look around at those that seem to believe they are brave I wonder which side they would have been on in Nazi Germany.

Eventually those that are deconstructing and then condemning Orwell will be condemned by future generations. But as I write this I know it is not true. They won't even be worth deconstructing because they won't be worth remembering.

Those we deconstruct are imperfect. They are flawed as all men are. But their work was so significant that it has stood the test of time despite these flaws. They built on what existed before them. We do the same. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Giants that were not perfect, but their work is a part of our history and us. When we just close our eyes and shut our ears we make the choice to cripple our minds. We allow our own arrogance to limit our potential.

I remember his 1984 book. Thats the one with the book burning and keeping society dumb, right?

Agree with you on deconstruction. I think the main issue with it is a lack of humility and perspective. The current man over estimating his own knowledge and mortality and understanding and underestimating that of those that went before.

@siggy47, you were English or Literature major in college?

from daily sceptic:

Step forward Jan Morris and his trilogy Pax Britannica. Now, I haven’t read this non-fictional account of the British Empire but from background knowledge, it’s not in any way a replacement for Orwell or even remotely comparable. It’s an exhaustive historical work, not a personal creative one. But this trilogy was extolled by the students as what Orwell should have done when discussing empire. There was the implication that Orwell could now be – somewhat thankfully – ignored.