The baddies do, and they can't see how it applies to them. They do like to say to others, its a warning and not an instructional manual, more slogans and projection as always.
Nothing about it is frightening. Its a pathetic illustration thier weakness. Just secured our resolve and you know life gets easier when you "know what needs to be done", no need for questions, the first shot is mine to take. No spine tingling here only an iche on my right hand trigger finger that needs to be scratched really bad. Do not fear for you are the ones stalking YOUR prey. They belong to us, the lord will deliever them unto our hands, they just havent realized it yet.
Homage to Catalonia is also a good read, he fought in the Spanish Civil War and saw what the communists were like and told the world what they did to their allies who weren't as left wing as they were.
I was intrigued by how Orwell imagined flat screen TVs back in 1949 when TVs were quite new and came in huge wooden cabinets. Also, how said "telescreens" issued propaganda all day. He must have been thinking of CNN in airports!
Then there was the total surveillance aspect of life. You could not do anything without Big Brother finding out. I think that is about to be brought home to 2000 Mules!
The job of the Ministry of Truth was to realign history, including previous newspaper articles, to make everything reflect the official narrative. People who were your enemies were now your friends and history would be changed to show that they had always been your friends.
Nazis used to be our enemy. Ukraine used to be corrupt and full of Nazis. Now they are our friends and a good place to send $39 billion and piles of weapons and the Nazis are not so bad after all.
I still think he was murdered for revealing the playbook. This book was published in 1949, and Orwell was dead in 1950.
Orwell's deathbed interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuKyBimFvM
It’s actually quite terrifying to read, even as a teenager it instinctively was nightmare level material to me.
The fucking rats. And how Winston lost in the end. The fact that there was no happy ending in 1984 seared the story into my dna
What frightened me the most was the fact that good people seemed to ignore it. The bad people seem to use it as a guide.
The baddies do, and they can't see how it applies to them. They do like to say to others, its a warning and not an instructional manual, more slogans and projection as always.
Nothing about it is frightening. Its a pathetic illustration thier weakness. Just secured our resolve and you know life gets easier when you "know what needs to be done", no need for questions, the first shot is mine to take. No spine tingling here only an iche on my right hand trigger finger that needs to be scratched really bad. Do not fear for you are the ones stalking YOUR prey. They belong to us, the lord will deliever them unto our hands, they just havent realized it yet.
Homage to Catalonia is also a good read, he fought in the Spanish Civil War and saw what the communists were like and told the world what they did to their allies who weren't as left wing as they were.
I tell everyone to read this book these days. I give a description of the plot if they aren’t readers
I was intrigued by how Orwell imagined flat screen TVs back in 1949 when TVs were quite new and came in huge wooden cabinets. Also, how said "telescreens" issued propaganda all day. He must have been thinking of CNN in airports!
Then there was the total surveillance aspect of life. You could not do anything without Big Brother finding out. I think that is about to be brought home to 2000 Mules!
The job of the Ministry of Truth was to realign history, including previous newspaper articles, to make everything reflect the official narrative. People who were your enemies were now your friends and history would be changed to show that they had always been your friends.
Nazis used to be our enemy. Ukraine used to be corrupt and full of Nazis. Now they are our friends and a good place to send $39 billion and piles of weapons and the Nazis are not so bad after all.
https://rauterberg.employee.id.tue.nl/lecturenotes/DDM110%20CAS/Orwell-1949%201984.pdf
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100011h.html
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