Of course, The Party doesn’t need to be the government. Orwell didn’t realize that. It can be high society, or your peers, or a number of private institutions. But it’s unlikely Party Members have an interest in identifying their own ideas.
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Yes, it will!
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Which is why Orwell's depressive mood when writing 1984 is pretty clearly not an actual serious prediction of the future I mean this isn't a new idea, it's orthodox Marxism - capitalism requires false consciousness (doublethink) to sustain itself
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And said false consciousness eventually collapses under the weight of its contradictions 1984 is this very pessimistic "But what if it doesn't?" dystopia but it doesn't, like, actually "argue" or "prove" that it doesn't
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Comrade Lysenko cannot summon food into existence through sheer ideology.
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