“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - Orwell https://counter.social/media/0GqLc2yUP2Q5Rzlxx4U
1984 was written with the repressive advanced modern techniques of Stalinism in mind. The thing he nailed though is uniformity of techniques used by corrupt murderous phony cult-of peronality "people's movements" (like Stalinism, Hitlerism..)
And then identifying them, naming those techniques (newspeak, doublethink, war is peace, freedom through slavery etc) & taking them to their logical endpoint in a fictionalized setting.
*1984* is like a vaccine against totalitarianism.
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Yet it is quite amazingly alarming how many people have never read "1984" or "Animal Farm".
@TheAbbotTrithemius The sad thing is that when George Orwell wrote "1984" he probably did not intend that a political party in a major Western democracy would lift it lock stock and barrel and make it their field guide. Of course, he may have been cynical enough to expect it to eventually happen.