timely post.
just read it more carefully as a self assignment two weeks ago. got far more out of it this time around of course.
among many things, the novel is a perfect assessment of anti-God/socialist/communist/leftist/bureaucratic, totalitarian mind.
sadly for us, this is exactly the gov’t we ‘proles’ have put in place in America. it is amazing that 70 some years ago he already had the endgame of our deep-state pegged: it is Oceana. Ministry of Love, indeed.
Eric Blair was actually an atheist, although he often attended Anglican services.