[sauropod]

Bkmk

[ProgressingAmerica]

Orwell’s essay “Why I Write” is quite interesting when you realize that Orwell comes to state plainly that he was a socialist his entire life, including during the time he wrote Nineteen Eighty Four.

That makes Nineteen Eighty Four distinctly a socialist book.

[Highest Authority]

Erik Blaire was the real name of George Orwell.

[Third Person]

NYT knows all about Orwellian language

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

-- "an essayistic documentary from Raoul Peck"

Oh, look! Promotional marketing dressed up NY Times' stuff.

[jerod]

He wasn't writing about the future... He was essentially writing about the present... His title 1984 was a jest if you will, instead of using the year 1948.

War rationing didn't end in the UK until 1954... And during and after the war Orwell was essentially living in a totalitarian state. The state controlled everything during the war, and the Labour party who were part of a coalition government with the Conservatives during the war, took over the government completely in 1945.

Orwell lived in turbulent times and those times were full of government controlling the lives of individuals and using wartime propaganda to justify their measures... Just like governments used Covid to control our lives during that nonsense.

[Organic Panic]

Wrong. 2 + 2 equals what the party says it is.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Gotta read this!

Good post!