George Orwell: Don't Say I Didn't Warn You

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In "1984," Orwell described a thought-police totalitarian state. How prescient was he?

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0:00.0	Okay, here we got. Stand by. Three, two, one.
0:04.6	The thinking atheist, it's not a person. It's a symbol. An idea.
0:10.6	The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.
0:14.0	Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred.
0:18.6	If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.
0:22.4	Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.
0:25.7	And working together for a more rational world.
0:29.0	Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
0:31.0	Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.
0:35.6	Assume nothing.
0:37.3	Question everything. And start nothing. Question everything.
0:39.4	And start thinking.
0:42.3	This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.
0:58.7	Just you and me today, I'm not going to take calls. We'll do that on the next broadcast.
1:00.7	I wanted to offer an opinion and then sound off all you want in the comments section,
1:06.3	because I do welcome your input, but so much of what we have been seeing relates to Orwell and his
1:13.3	writings in Animal Farm and of course 1984. And you know how much I love to read the words of other
1:19.6	people. Those who are smarter and more astute than myself, I stand on their shoulders. And as a narrator,
1:26.0	I get a chance to sort of bring that information to you.
1:29.8	And I'm going to do some Orwell here at the beginning and at the end.
1:33.8	And in the middle I want to give an opinion.
1:36.1	I don't know if I'm right or wrong, but I have an opinion about this fiasco with the White House press corps.
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