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minus-squareALQ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month agoIs anyone else starting to wonder whether Orwell was a time traveler trying to warn us? It couldn’t possibly be that Trump and his handlers are using it (edit: 1984) as a road map and his followers are stupid enough not to notice.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·1 month agoOrwell was writing specifically paranoid delusions about the USSR and it’s really funny to me how his work actually more accurately describes capitalist countries today.
Is anyone else starting to wonder whether Orwell was a time traveler trying to warn us?
It couldn’t possibly be that Trump and his handlers are using it (edit: 1984) as a road map and his followers are stupid enough not to notice.
Orwell was writing specifically paranoid delusions about the USSR and it’s really funny to me how his work actually more accurately describes capitalist countries today.