This interpretation of the book is flat out wrong if you actually pay attention when you read the whole thing And yet it's incredibly common The *tone* of the book invites it, this sense that revolution has ruined what was a flourishing happy world
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Like they all have this very clear mental image of what this book is about and the book does not talk about any of this shit
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For all we know the only reason the Ingsoc state exists in 1984 was a total lack of creeping Big nuclear war, millions of deaths, establishing a new government wholesale in the ashes among the scattered survivors
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No one is saying it creeps in IN the book. People are seeing it creep into society, today, gradually. It's not that deep. People are just calling out the dual definitions that Critical/Pomo types like to use. It's some junky in-group elitist stuff. Sucks to see it growing.
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