I genuinely think that when a socialist like Orwell writes a book that is as wildly popular with Republicans as 1984 is, it means that, as skilled a writer and a thinker as he may be, he done fucked up It's his mistake and his lefty fans need to own that
I dunno if it's about "needing enforcers" It's about the idea that because this society is stupid and has elevated ignorance to a virtue it is therefore hateful and intolerant The Book People are a tiny minority and always will be but the majority needs to punish them anyway
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Shoving the nerd into a locker for thinking he's better than you, that kind of thing
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This exists in the backstory of Brave New World, too Mustapha Mond's opening lecture about how plenty of people in the Old World resisted but they were outnumbered and had to be forcibly destroyed
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