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Later on, Asimov also drags Orwell (and the entire left) for in-fighting with regards to the sino-soviet split:
Orwell not only foresaw the communist victory (he saw that victory everywhere, in fact) but also foresaw that Russia and China would not form a monolithic bloc but would be deadly enemies. There, his own experience as a Leftist sectarian may have helped him. He had no Rightist superstitions concerning Leftists as unified and indistinguishable villains. He knew they would fight each other as fiercely over the most trifling points of doctrine as would the most pious of Christians.
ouch!
As any politician knows, no evidence of any kind is ever required. It is only necessary to make a statement - any statement - forcefully enough to have an audience believe it. No one will check the lie against the facts, and, if they do, they will disbelieve the facts.
This guy gets it.
TBH, this review is kinda trash and misses key points of the book imo, like the television screens aren't always watching, it's a psychological fear of the possibility of being watched, big brother was likely never a real person or if he was was irrelevant to the actual functioning of ingsoc society (in a not dissimilar way to how Stalin was not that responsible for soviet governing but a figurehead for the machine, which is not inaccurate), and the section on Newspeak reads like Asimov literally skimmed the section and didn't read that part of the book as it's pretty inaccurate, and he somehow completely misses the point that the war is fake the whole time. Really don't understand how Asimov that seriously misinterpreted the book.
Asimov was always oddly bad at interpreting other author's work, like he had some whack ideas on what stuff represented in Lord of The Rings.
the most computerised nations in today's world are also the least tyrannical.
Bruh
This is apt, because I, Robot sucked shit, and 1984 revolutionized literature.
