Yeah He completely discard subtlety or nuance or, honestly, basic realism of any kind in 1984 in order to make his point It's not a serious prediction, it's a caricature, a fever dream It's why Asimov didn't care for it - "This society wouldn't last a day"
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But it's the McCarthyists who wanted this book taught! Who used it as a justification for suppressing leftist ideas! We had to censor and surveil people so we didn't wake up in a society of censorship and surveillance! Ffffffffff
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"No freedom for the enemies of Liberty!" "That's why we're going to torture people we suspect of working for Al Qaeda, demand that the citizenship of people suspected of holding anti-judeo-christian views removed, and refuse entrance to r⃫e⃫f⃫u⃫g⃫e⃫e⃫s⃫ migrants"
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Sure, but he wrote it at a time when he was distraught by how many of his fellow leftists were bewitched by Stalinian Soviet Russia, which is why 1984 has a certain, let's say "flavor"
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