Does China sell 1984 ?
It is not a good sign when quotes from Orwell seem apt when talking about one's own society.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/orwell-fourth-of-july.html …
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Yes but if you get caught buying it you get arrested by the thought police
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It’s reality. Better talk about it in civil society... before we have a social credit system.
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Isn’t that just part of the variety of culture, though? Seems like it’s almost always applicable to some extent, similar to perennial Hitler comparisons in politics
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My favorite in these times of iconoclasty: "Who controls the past, controls the future”
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"Politics and the English Language" is also more and more timely.
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For instance: "Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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"The best books...are those that tell you what you know already."
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The ministry of truth wont like you saying that; the though police will be on their way to shuttle you off to room 101.
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