I thought this was going to just be Orwell’s early influenced. It covers that, but then relates his words directly to Trump and totalitarianism around the world.
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1984 was not a warning . It is a roadmap
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Would you explain ? Do you mean that Orwell was a totalitarian ?
This is the same confusion people have about Machiavelli. You read The Prince, and it appears to be handbook for how to be a tyrant. But it was descriptive of the tyrants he saw. Readers are shown what to watch for.
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It’s not even that. 1984 is one of the most overrated novels ever written. The society in the book is too paranoid and autistic to exist in real life.
The only “realistic” dystopian novel is Brave New World.
1984 is a dystopia, Orwell uses a magnifier to show us totlaitarism in action. *
and China is well on the way to build it.
Give me a break. People in the west are sentenced to jail for saying river to the sea, holding up a flag and taking climate change action against big oil
I think calling Orwell a seer might be closer to the mark.
As an aside and for what it’s worth, for the essential George Orwell video, check out this one.
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Full Documentary (High Quality)
Dec 27, 2015 #documentary #george #orwell
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.
Awards:
International Emmy 2004 for Best Arts Programme
Grierson Award 2004 for Best Documentary on the Arts
Oh and I would suggest George Orwell thought too deeply to ever be a totalitarian.
He famously stated in his 1946 essay Why I Write that every line of his serious work was written directly or indirectly “against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism”
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If you mean that West democracies are not perfect democraties, and that the states protect the interests of big business against every criticism and attack, i fully agree.
but, in China, there is no freedom of opinion, at all, there is not a free press, at all, there are not independent courts, at all, you can be jailed just for publicly remembering Tian An Men killings and so.
Chinese government is rewriting history, reminding me an Orwellian saying : " Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future"
And you who rightly don’t like genocide, and ethnocide, surely condemn Chinese policies in tibet and against Uighurs?
China has been totalitarian for a long time, yet it never resembled the 1984 society.
It is on the path … It will not be exactly 1984, but it tends to be.
Do The Outsider’s Test.
First, make a list that describes “the 1984 society.”
Then, compare it to China.
That’s completely compatible with capitalism
Is the west also on that path ?
Not sure, less advanced, at least
All your comments are trivial and lack critical thinking in the face of all western nations lurching towards the far right
Not only the Western nations, look at India, Turkey, South America.
I don’t deny that Western countries are sliding toward autocratic systems, and dictatorships, i just note that some are much farther down on the slope, as Russia and China.
And Poland and Hungary seem to have made a stop on the slide, even with a voting system heavily loaded to favorize ultra right.
Once more, learn to see and analyze the world in shades of grey. All is not in blacks and whites.
All your comments are extreme and lack support from data. Define “lurching”. Before the US Constitution was ratified, the whole world was closed autocracies (we don’t have good information on indigenous cultures). Recently, yes we reached a peak in the number of democracies, but, show me “lurching”.
Your colleague Morgan agrees with me here. You are so out of touch and brainwashed
The day after winning the election , Peter Magyar declared his government would consist of representatives of the banks, the economy and the European Union, which will continue the right-wing, anti-social and undemocratic policies of the ousted Orbán government.
So WTF are you talking about ??
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