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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The “lesson” of 1984 for me was that there is ultimately no shelter from the oppression of the state in good old fashioned conservatism.
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The whole "The Truth is obvious" function in 1984 because the party's gaslightning is a caricature of the real thing:
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The weekly chocolate ration is reduced to 20 grams a week, and 24 hours later, the state propaganda says "People are demonstrating their gratitude for the chocolate ration"…
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