[Crazieman]

Amazing. Decades ago, Orwell had their number already. It all came to fruition.

[fella]

Amazing. Decades ago, Orwell had their number already. It all came to fruition.

When I was in high-school we had to read and discuss both "1984" and "Animal Farm". A year or two back I asked some teenage kids of a friend how liked those books and they had no idea about what I was talking about.

[fr_freak]

George Orwell was always prescient.

Actually, it was not prescience, but hard, cold experience. It is my understanding that Orwell was a communist when he was young, and fully supported the Soviet Union at first. His transformation to anti-communist began when the Soviets started mass-murdering their people. What really horrified Orwell was how the fellow travelers in the UK and the rest of the West refused to condemn or even acknowledge the horrors that were occurring in the USSR. A lot of the ideas that were included in Animal Farm and 1984 were based on observations about how communists actually behaved, such as "news" accounts of the events in the USSR that would paint everything as rosy as possible, or would spin the event to make it seem proper or even heroic when it was really plain evil. The idea of "groupthink" and other mind control were a direct result of these observations.

In other words, it is same ol' same ol' for the Left in the world. They have been using the Big Lie and trying to deny reality since the early 1900s, perhaps even before.