Yup, if you read it like this, Dostoyevsky was defending the right to go mad ("I am ALLOWED to believe 2+2=5 if I WANT TO") and Orwell goes for this ironic reversal, if all of society is mad then only the madman is sanehttps://twitter.com/GiffordJames/status/1290804551155507200 …
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And it's just...I mean, if they think free speech and open debate will solve and sort out any irrationality, they sure don't want to engage with anyone who disagrees with them.
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They want to call them names
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And the worst part is they deliberatly overlook the most important point of Orwell's novel: the most important thing is not whether 2+2= 4 or 5, but whether someone has the means to torture you until you grovel at their feets and pretend to agree with them on everything.
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If someone says "the sky is not blue, it's pinkish red with green dots dancing around" and you waterboard them till they say "the sky is blue" you're still the fucking villain of the story.
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