• iByteABit [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    28 days ago

    Western propaganda is often so reminiscent of 1984 that I would think Orwell was a genuine socialist that got misunderstood, if he wasn’t such a piece of shit person to prove otherwise

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      28 days ago

      When i read it at first i was pretty baffled, he definitely describe capitalism during fascist freefall, why does all those reviews, back covers, tv talking heads all the time insist he was describing communism???

      But turned out, he really did had that intention, he was just the worst writer in history, achieving message opposite to intended.

    • CascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      He literally worked for the British government making propaganda during WW2, all the tropes in 1984 are taken direct from the imperial thought control machine.