But he wasn't! At least not in 1984! 1984 isn't about "creeping Orwellianism", it doesn't have "trends", it doesn't contain "early warning signs" The whole thing takes place AFTER they've already completely conquered society!
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Yes, well, right wing readers don't tend to have a sense of how power relations affect choices, *even when they aren't written into law*
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But no, all the right wing fans of this book think of it as "creeping", they all have false memories of the "creeping" being in the book, they treat the book like it's an actual cautionary tale about a happy functional liberal democracy being quietly subverted by infiltrators
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(Because that's the ur-fascist narrative That's what they try to turn every narrative into, that's how they see the world -- shady cabals of seductive infiltrators And even though that's not Orwell's thing he foolishly left the door open inviting it)
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