I genuinely think it's time to cancel Orwell Not because he was personally problematic or had problematic politics (though there's an argument for both) But because his Internet fanbase are the most insufferable human beings known to modern science
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Wikipedia gives a big list of examples (Samuel Johnson, Lord Byron, Balzac, Hugo, Dostoyevsky)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5 …
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Oh yeah, Stalin using it as propaganda was a riff on that meme. Those posters were saying "look, we made the thing everyone said was obviously impossible actually happen!" So it's a good example of reality-distortion in and of itself whilst also being a direct threat.
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Orwell really didn't like Stalinists, and he knew his propaganda. It was a meme they'd appropriated, so it's a safe bet to say he's referring to it (nowadays he'd be making "helicopter ride" references). But, like Shakespeare, it works if you know the reference and if you don't!pic.twitter.com/kTNgCJtuLj
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(I just think the violence aspect of it's the more important one to how dictatorships actually function — in the text and real life. Because totalitarian reality-distoriton's always backed up by that same threat of violence and death if you step out of line.)
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