In fact, this is my thing as a fan of Orwell but honestly more of a fan of pre-WWII Orwell than Animal Farm and 1984 Orwell, where you can see the signs of him evolving into Christopher Hitchens Orwell did start thinking like this, and it's an ugly thing to think
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And being fired by tweeting is publicity in itself that can be apparently easily converted into *bigger* venues
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I mean, it’s possible that that two sources of corrupt power exist across different institutions. The goal is to create a much better society than the two can imagine, both of which descend into 1984 in some way when iterated freely, and are game theoretically unstable.
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Centrism is really irritating. If there are two sides, looking to the middle isn't necessarily a good idea.
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Parody of 1984 where Winston Smith is the op-ed column editor at a major newspaper. In the stunning climax, he's canceled in a MeToo scandal, and winds up making even more money at an independent blogging site backed by wealthy businesses interests.
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I mean, there was that whole thing in the novel of Winston's affair with a young hot woman being "radical". In fact there seems to be a rtheme in a lot of classic dystopias with middle aged male protagonists having sex with younger women and it being framed as revolutionary...
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