Season 1 Episode 202
I am very nervous about publishing this episode, because it could bring me unwanted attention. But things have changed to the point where I no longer feel that simply doing my best to be decent will protect me. Free speech is precious, and it’s a principle we should all stand up for, even when it means supporting the rights of someone whose substance or style may not be our cup of tea.
There’s a lot of tension in Britain right now over the issue of free speech, policing, and control of the internet. Two terms with literary origins — “Kafkaesque” and “Orwellian” — are showing up a lot in conversations about the situation in the country where I live, so I thought I would take the example of Graham Linehan’s arrest by the Metropolitan Police in Britain to show why commentators are making connections to terms that relate to books such as “The Trial” by Franz Kafka and “Animal Farm” or “Nineteen Eighty-four” by George Orwell.
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