Under today’s gathering dark clouds, a reread of Nineteen Eighty-Four shows how the otherwise prescient George Orwell was wrong to think people were going to have to be tortured into submission. Half of America (still psychologically locked down, vexed and vaxed) wouldn’t have it any other way.
The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four is grim in a way 2022 would understand.
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