The book got a whole lot more interesting once I found out about Orwell's actualy politics and the context in which he wrote it
There's a reason the book is not about the big evil meanie Ruski communists (although Big Bro is obviously a stand-in for a Hitler/Stalin figure, a precursor to the "totalitarianism" meme), instead it takes place in the UK in a future he saw as plausible, based on his experiences working for the BBC. He experienced the propaganda, surveillance and bureaucracy firsthand, he knew what was coming. If anything, shit like double-think and newspeak and "we've always been at war with Eurasia" literally just describes anglo/US media today. What is Oceania if not Five-Eyes? What is Big Brother if not just the NSA? I'm sad to say he did get most of it right, except for the complete opposite reasons right-wingers think.
Its a decent little parable, but what really gets me is that the libs who wave it around as a polemic against socialism think they've got it all figured out, when really these motherfuckers are still blaming Snowball for the mill failing.
Yeah the book totally gets socialism ass-backwards and wrong, reading it as a allegory for communism feels like something dreamed up by a deranged person. But if you read it as late stage capitalism, it clicks a bit.
1984 is a good book because it accurately describes life in the imperial core police state. Never read animal farm so idk about that one.
The book got a whole lot more interesting once I found out about Orwell's actualy politics and the context in which he wrote it
There's a reason the book is not about the big evil meanie Ruski communists (although Big Bro is obviously a stand-in for a Hitler/Stalin figure, a precursor to the "totalitarianism" meme), instead it takes place in the UK in a future he saw as plausible, based on his experiences working for the BBC. He experienced the propaganda, surveillance and bureaucracy firsthand, he knew what was coming. If anything, shit like double-think and newspeak and "we've always been at war with Eurasia" literally just describes anglo/US media today. What is Oceania if not Five-Eyes? What is Big Brother if not just the NSA? I'm sad to say he did get most of it right, except for the complete opposite reasons right-wingers think.
Its a decent little parable, but what really gets me is that the libs who wave it around as a polemic against socialism think they've got it all figured out, when really these motherfuckers are still blaming Snowball for the mill failing.
Yeah the book totally gets socialism ass-backwards and wrong, reading it as a allegory for communism feels like something dreamed up by a deranged person. But if you read it as late stage capitalism, it clicks a bit.
I always heard the book described as "anti-authoritarian" which should naturally point to late stage capitalism.
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