Reading 1984 should be the price of admission to Freeperville. Great book.
Orwell was a sage. He knew not the new technology of the future but did predict much of it. He knew exactly what would be done with it.
On Portobello Road in London is a small blue plaque showing the residence of Orwell. Then the low rent district but today high dollar. I gazed up to the second floor window and was amazed at the brilliance that was written there.
Oddly he completed 1984 on the Isle of Jura in Scotland. A beautiful place in the summer but a bleak stormy hell in winter. No electricity just a paraffin stove for heat. It was a most appropriate place to finish his greatest book.
His second greatest book was “Letters from Catalonia.” He went to Spain and fought for the communists. In Spain he discovered what communism really was. He saw the beast. He came back to England as a quasi libertarian light socialist. If he had lived another 20 years (he died of tuberculosis) he would have been a conservative libertarian. He was a great man.