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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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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Because of this, actual capitalists manage to read this book and think of themselves as the good guys Orwell's critique about using capitalism as an excuse for abuse and oppression within left-wing movements turns into an actual defense of capitalism
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Isn't the point that he knows absolutely nothing at all about anything? Even the information on the order of the world that he gets is give to him by O'Brien. It may be the truth, because why not? And it may all be made up nonsense, because who cares?
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This is a great point and it puts me in mind of ‘Diamond Dogs’, where Bowie focuses on the oppression of gay love under the regime, by which he clearly means to critique RL Britain; it’s not that this oppression is somehow new, but that the methods of the state are exhaustive 1/
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And cause them to turn on each other to escape suspicion - which again is a direct criticism of the realities at a time when gay love was illegal. 2/2
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