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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THAT'S HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT 1984 ITSELF When you go "Okay this is silly though This wouldn't happen, you know this wouldn't happen right" The book is well written enough that it triggers this emotional "THAT'S WHAT A SHEEP WOULD SAY, THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU" reaction
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It's something Orwell, ironically, experienced himself He was an early victim of the Red Scare "I hear commies hate basic human decency so much they just set piles of babies on fire I hear during the Spanish Civil War the countryside was littered with baby fires"
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Interestingly, the book is not that much concerned with the true believers, since it's at its core about how a totalitarian regime will crush you for even the mildest of rebellions.
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It does try to portray the downfall of Winston as him becomeing a true believer, but fails to make that part of the tale believable.
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