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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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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And then, one day, the pronouns attacked
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Right. The obvious thing to me when I read it as a teen was that “this society is incapable of producing more O’Briens. It is clearly fucked long term, but may last a few more decades.”
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