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On Thursday, I gave a well-received speech at USPTO Toastmasters, “George Orwell: an Appreciation.” There was more to Orwell than Nineteen Eighty-Four, and I may have been one of the youngest people to read through his Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters. I talked about some of his ideas, and about his character, and how his observations on people’s ability to believe and not believe a proposition at the same time, or to refuse to believe inconvenient facts that contradicted their own wishes, or the pronouncements of the glorious leader, prepared me for 21st century American politics.