Why do people act like 1984 was anything other than vibes based fiction?
i remember the half-truth going around when I was a teenager and first encountering this book, that orwell was actually writing about a system he himself was part of
it literally took until this thread for me to realise I still had never addressed that falsehood, like of course orwell didn’t actually live in the USSR, but i bet most people (if asked) will still believe that to be the case - that 1984 is orwell criticising a system he previously supported/was a part of, and not a piece of fiction spun out of whole cloth
that 1984 is orwell criticising a system he previously supported/was a part of
Technically, I guess this is true if you interpret it as being a critique of . IIRC, there’s nothing in the book indicating that Oceania is supposed to be a communist country, except maybe “Ingsoc”, but you can easily dismiss that by saying the Nazis called themselves socialists too.
i never like to attack orwell for being a cop, a snitch and a r*pist, but instead focus on the fact that the loser worked for the BBC and ASSUMED that the USSR would be worse and wrote a whole-ass book about his daydreaming.
working at the department of lies and propaganda sure feels like working for stalin’s department of propaganda which i imagine is just like my actual job, which is evil, and therefore stalin and the whole soviet union is evil
God forbid people have fun.
George Orwell was a resentful skinnyfat redditor.
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