The term, Orwellian is sometimes overused, but what else can you call this? I remember reading 1984 as a kid and thinking about how terrible it would be to live in a world like that. And here we are.
I think Orwell was so accurate because he wasn't predicting the future, he was describing the left from the inside. He was a leftist during the spanish civil war and then there was some massacre of one group of leftists by another then he didn't want to be a leftist anymore. That's why his books are so good. He knows about it like someone who believed in it, and he knows exactly why it is wrong.
Member of the Fabian Society, which are basically the party from the book. They believe humans and society can be shaped into a socialist utopia in the first instance, the lie for the useful idiots, when in reality they seek to capture and expand the power of the state because it is an extension of their personal power
Very good points. Also he was unique among leftists, in that he not only saw the flaws in the left but was willing to be open and honest about them. I think he was much more human than many so called intellectuals. He didn't live in abstractions, he knew we have to live in the real world.
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