Have you read anything by George Orwell?  Whether he knows it or not, his name has spawned a number of other words.  Among them is Orwellian.  What's Orwellian?  It signifies an effort to rewrite the meaning of a word or event so as to render it either of greater or lesser significance.  And then pretend the original event never happened.

    Although January 6, 2021, in the U.S. is over five years behind us, its scars remain.  I know it happened:  I watched it on live television.  It was not a "day of love;" it was an insurrection.  Many people, mostly police officers, lost their lives.  Property damage reached the millions.  Over a thousand people were eventually convicted of crimes committed that day, including sedition, and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.

    But in classic Orwellian fashion, the current U.S. presidential administration wants to act as if that day never happened.  The official White House website has recently published a lengthy rewriting of that day, producing a narrative that is totally false, and yet one that it insists is absolutely true.  Worse, every single one of those who were sent to prison have been pardoned by the same person who encouraged them to riot.

    "Without revelation [transcendent standards of value]," Proverbs 29 writes, "the people perish."  Replace law with royal whim and a nation falls.

    It's still falling, too.