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> he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of Correct. After signing up with the left-wing forces in the Spanish Civil War, and getting betrayed by the Stalinists, he was one of the left-wing British writers who could see what Stalinism was and wrote about it. The whole "memory hole" business is a reference to the removal of Trotsky from photographs, for example. This has nothing to do with ant…
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If Big Brother hadn't told you about Covid, would you even know?
I mean, my wife is a nurse in an ICU that has had to triple capacity in the last 6 weeks and still has less than 15% capacity remaining, so, yeah, I'd imagine I'd have some inkling.
We are living in a clown show. If this was real, we would see bodies on the streets, and the government would be fighting to keep businesses open. We don't and its not. This is just the first stage to a transition of a new economic paradigm - technocracy - where there are no small businesses, everything and everyone is tracked and traced, were we will own nothing, and be completely dependent on government/corporations/military. And most people are cheering this on.
Shout some more hate at Goldstein!!
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> he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of Correct. After signing up with the left-wing forces in the Spanish Civil War, and getting betrayed by the Stalinists, he was one of the left-wing British writers who could see what Stalinism was and wrote about it. The whole "memory hole" business is a reference to the removal of Trotsky from photographs, for example. This has nothing to do with ant…
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> he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of Correct. After signing up with the left-wing forces in the Spanish Civil War, and getting betrayed by the Stalinists, he was one of the left-wing British writers who could see what Stalinism was and wrote about it. The whole "memory hole" business is a reference to the removal of Trotsky from photographs, for example. This has nothing to do with ant…
If Big Brother hadn't told you about Covid, would you even know?
Eh, I probably would've noticed something's up.
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> It is a great book, and Orwell was spot on with so much of what he wrote. How did he do it? Not to diminish Orwell's prescience in any way, but Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We precedes Orwell's work by almost 30 years. It contains all the same themes, and without a shadow of a doubt, had a massive influence on Orwell's work.
I would suspect that Yevgeny Zamyatin would also have been privy to the plan. Aldous Huxley too.
No, they were not part of any plan if there was ever one. Yevgeny Zamyatin and Aldous Huxley were participants and observers of civil war, revolution, and its subsequent corruption by totalitarians. Their books are a testimony to that and a warning.
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If Big Brother hadn't published 1984 would you even know how they really operate? (this comment is a tribute to https://xkcd.com/966/ )
I'm not clear what your position is, but what does it say about one, in one can only see the tyranny in a book but not be able to see it in real life?
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> he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of Correct. After signing up with the left-wing forces in the Spanish Civil War, and getting betrayed by the Stalinists, he was one of the left-wing British writers who could see what Stalinism was and wrote about it. The whole "memory hole" business is a reference to the removal of Trotsky from photographs, for example. This has nothing to do with ant…
If Big Brother hadn't told you about Covid, would you even know?
If you're actually so sheltered that you cannot see it, you should give thanks. If not, I have nothing but contempt.
Either way, take your black propaganda somewhere else.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, and most of Orwell's other works (including his essays) are freely available at: https://orwell.ru/ Edited to add direct link to the appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four, as referenced at the end of the article: https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app
Thank you for this, this is a wonderful resource! I found the link to download an ASCII version of 1984 by reading the readme.txt file, the anchor link seemed broken. Hope this helps another seeker: https://orwell.ru/Download/1984/e84_asc.zip One of the cool things I think about 1984 that occurred to me while re-reading the appendix now as suggested by the article is that in order for Orwell to say something very new…
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If Big Brother hadn't told you about Covid, would you even know?
I mean, my wife is a nurse in an ICU that has had to triple capacity in the last 6 weeks and still has less than 15% capacity remaining, so, yeah, I'd imagine I'd have some inkling.
SARS2-COVID-19 is a novel virus. True. Would we notice without modern medicine and rtPCR tests? I'm not convinced.
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> he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of Correct. After signing up with the left-wing forces in the Spanish Civil War, and getting betrayed by the Stalinists, he was one of the left-wing British writers who could see what Stalinism was and wrote about it. The whole "memory hole" business is a reference to the removal of Trotsky from photographs, for example. This has nothing to do with ant…
If Big Brother hadn't told you about Covid, would you even know?