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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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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And his weary reaction is just "Why do you think that happened, where did you see this happen, who witnessed it" "Well that's the kind of thing commies do, and this barrage of deflecting questions is the kind of thing commies say"
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Yeah - there's kind of a genre problem, that I think is getting worse as we all get more used to expansive worldbuilding. 1984 isn't science fiction or the like - it's a satire. Not a humorous one, but it's written to play up absurdities rather than plausibility.
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