Make Orwell read every tweet where someone makes a hamfisted reference to 1984
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Also if you follow Owen at all the often-repeated accusation that he "mostly attacks women" is obviously false and is as obviously tendentious and manufactured as the idea that Parsons was prone to murmuring "Down with Big Brother" in his sleep
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He seems to consider women beneath his consideration, granted. Probably because they are ‘overwrought’, ‘histrionic’ and ‘narcissistically deluded’. You worked out a lot about me because I carelessly wrote ‘wrongthink’ instead of ‘thoughtcrime’.
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Books work metaphorically as well as literally. This is why 1984 has so much power in readers’ imagination as it does both as well as drawing on 20th Century History. The Youth League strike me as getting at something about OJ’s moral purity.
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But they only work metaphorically if they actually, you know, fit the extant situation. This does not. it feels as if you've already decided that there's some kind of evil cancelling horde out there. One should make the theory from the data, not pick data to suit one's theory
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