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.
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.