Nobody is saying the Party in 1984 are good guys you dipshit they're saying that your habit of just pointing to people you don't like in real life and say that they're the Party and you're Winston Smith is insufferable, vacuous, fart-sniffing wank
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Yeah, I mean, the only application of "Orwellian" that makes any sense here is the degree of monitoring, and even that's a stretch for things that become news stories. Or just, you know, things people say loudly around other people.
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The only places using legit Orwellian language today are HR departments and news articles about cop murders.
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(This is what I mean about one of the critical flaws in 1984 - it's set up so the dead past, the world we live in now in real life, is totally inaccessible to Smith, he knows almost nothing about it He imagines it as some kind of paradise and the narrative just lets him do so)
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It's part of this sort of arch joke that the Party uses "capitalists" as a strawman to beat up on, saying that their defeat of capitalism justifies everything they do, but no one even remembers what a capitalist is - they just have this image of a rich guy wearing a top hat
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That's not true. Orwell in 1946: "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/ …
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In Orwell people don't get fired for their opinions, they get Disappeared and removed from public and private record There's a very very big difference
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It's not even just in degree, it's fundamentally different in kind. Like, google fired the guy who wrote the "women aren't as smart" memo because they thought that was shitty, right? But he's still out there, he probably got hired by someone else, I'm sure he has friends maybe
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In real life, the only thing that even comes close to deserving the term “Orwellian” is the Trump Presidency. He literally contradicts himself in real time and his cult goes along without hesitation. Like they just heard him say what he didn’t say..
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