Reminder when using the term "Orwellian" that for Orwell the science-fiction idea of total information control was a secondary thing
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OF COURSE they knew that the story that the Jews orchestrated the whole thing was obvious and transparent bullshit, but they didn't CARE
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Hitler didn't need to go into some complex conspiracy to elaborately falsify the history of WWI, he just told a more appealing story
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the doublethink/speak is info control for me though. But i was assigned 1984 *in* 1984 which was pretty weird.
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I read his cultural imperialism essays after that. "Shooting an Elephant" gah
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I loved that Justin McKinney told a "Shooting a Deer" story in standup that's essentially the same story
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