I think the recent 1984 quotes are close to encouraging generalization from fictional evidence. Bias and totalitarianism are not more connected because Orwell wrote a work of fiction connecting them; you may understand this on a gut level, but many readers probably don’t. If there’s a duty to make history available, isn’t there a converse duty to make fiction unavailable?
I think the recent 1984 quotes are close to encouraging generalization from fictional evidence. Bias and totalitarianism are not more connected because Orwell wrote a work of fiction connecting them; you may understand this on a gut level, but many readers probably don’t. If there’s a duty to make history available, isn’t there a converse duty to make fiction unavailable?
Anyway, here are my thoughts on whether it’s a good idea to choose bias.