Being fired for your opinions is "Orwellian" in the sense that it has been the status quo for the working class under capitalism for hundreds of years, and Orwell did not in fact like capitalism
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It means dickhead conservatives get to fill in their own version of the history, which they have done, to the point where "creeping Orwellianism" fanfiction giving an origin story to the Party is basically better known than the actual plot of the actual book
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And even though Orwell actually believed the Party was an end result of the inevitable collapse of capitalism under its own contradictions, they get to say stupid shit about how America was working fine and was the prosperous land of the free etc
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Part of it seems like he got too attached to the cleverness of a book titled 1984 to be published in 1948. Like, that's only 36 years. Orwell himself would have been 81 in 1984. The book seems like it was written to be set in 2048, and then got switched for that joke.
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Winston is 39 - he would have been a toddler when the book was published, and unless the premise here is that the revolution was going to happen the day after the book launch, there's no way he wouldn't have much clearer memories of the whole biz.
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I thinkn you're a bit wrong about people knowing the past; Smith himself can recall a world before the Party came to power (and notes that there was, it seems, a nuclear war). So clearly there was a transition that likely resulted from a huge upheaval, destruction of the old
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Smith, as an ordinary citizen, might have been too young to understand it. And remember Orwell was writing when the big bombs were Hiroshima, not bikini atoll. (H-bombs wouldn't appear for another several years).
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