And that sucks, honestly One thing that I've noticed is people who love the word "Orwellian" talk about "creeping Orwellianism", they point to some stupid fake college campus scandal and go "These are the trends Orwell was warning us about"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
And that's actually one of the great weaknesses of 1984 It DOESN'T depict the transitional period, at all It's actually a major plot point that NO ONE CAN REMEMBER IT (except maybe O'Brien dropping tantalizing hints) Winston keeps trying to remember but he can't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
And honestly I think that's because he couldn't show the transition because he wasn't sure what the story would be There's a lot of shit you'd have to figure out for how this exaggerated nightmare scenario might occur
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
It's easier not to explain it, let the Party appear all-powerful and eternal, make the story be about the fact that no one can actually know anything about the reality of the world I get that, but it remains a cop out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and
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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Replying to @trans_victory @arthur_affect and
Not intelligence, precisely (you can be a very competent Nazi) but creativity, specifically. You need to be able to think like the adversary to do what O’Brien does, and the very crimethink mindset that defines the regime makes cultivating such people impossible.
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @trans_victory and
The antidote to that is supposed to be doublethink But even the narration from Winston's POV post-conversion points out that doublethink is fucking hard work
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"Doublethink" is one of those concepts that 1984 has made into a very sinister meme that isn't really Like these same chuds really enjoy the apocryphal quote "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it", don't they
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
Oh Chu, what you don’t realize is that you are in The Party. One cannot know this when they don’t have any original thoughts, & simply repeat the Party line, even if for purely performative reasons, social status, mating tactics, whatever. Orwell’s relevance is significant.
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