Posted on 06/08/2021 4:04:24 PM PDT by PROCON
George Orwell's novel of a dystopian future, 1984, is published on June 8, 1949. The novel’s all-seeing leader, known as “Big Brother,” becomes a universal symbol for intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy.
George Orwell was the nom de plume of Eric Blair, who was born in India. The son of a British civil servant, Orwell attended school in London and won a scholarship to the elite prep school Eton, where most students came from wealthy upper-class backgrounds, unlike Orwell. Rather than going to college like most of his classmates, Orwell joined the Indian Imperial Police and went to work in Burma in 1922. During his five years there, he developed a severe sense of class guilt; finally in 1927, he chose not to return to Burma while on holiday in England.
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I read a biography of him which said he was a communist who went to war against Spain as a “republican”.
The things he wrote about in 1984 weren’t predictions, they were the SOP of the people around him.
The thing that seemed amazing to me is that he stayed a leftist after his experiences.
Orwell is more relevant today than ever before.
Stunning, isn’t it?
How many times have we heard the equivalent of “Four legs good, two legs bad!”?
(Or, “Wearing Mask good, not wearing mask, bad!”)
Transgenderism made me realize the profundity of Newspeak nowadays.
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