Well, this is irony beyond parody. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

If Liberty means anything at all, wrote George Orwell in the original prefaced Animal Farm,

it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Recently, the University of Northampton demonstrated where they stand on this,

adding a trigger warning to another iconic Orwell book, 1984.

Now students are warned that Orwell's seminal critique of totalitarianism, censorship, and thought control

could contain material that some might find offensive and upsetting.

It just can't make this stuff up.

Look for the record, strong evidence suggests that trigger warnings do not prevent feelings of trauma and could even have the opposite effect of

heightening emotional vulnerability to scary or offensive content. But on a much deeper level, we're simply walking in the way Orwell warned against. It's the dark side of an expressive individualism devoid of deeper truth. And and eventually embracing an ideology that tells us to create

our own reality only leads us to cancel anyone who threatens them. I'm John Stone Street.