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  • absolute supervision
  • control of behaviors by cameras
  • control of facts and history by the government
  • control of langage and thoughts
  • double think, double langage

Orwell did not anticipate the power of computers.

But China is methodically setting such a system. And bits of it are set up in West, shared between states and firms.
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All governments engage in some these, to some extent. It is rarely successful.

The kind of totalitarianism in 1984 is one where Big Brother has basically erased human nature and simply humiliates the public for their own amusement, but that is not how totalitarians operate in real life.

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Have you checked Russion history lately?

You are familiar with the mantra: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” repeated Winston obediently.
“Who controls the present controls the past,” said O’Brien, nodding his head with slow approval. ‘Is it your opinion, Winston, that the past has real existence?’ (1984)

Many names have disappeared from Russian history. These people never existed. And if you still have a book with those names it will be confiscated and burned ala Fahrenheit 457.

This rewriting of history is already practised by the Republican party in the Texas school districts. Just look at the new school curricula that deny the term “slavery”.

State education board members push back on proposal to use “involuntary relocation” to describe slavery

The Texas State Board of Education is fielding proposals to update the state’s public school social studies curriculum this summer.

“I can’t say what their intention was, but that’s not going to be acceptable,” Davis told The Texas Tribune on Thursday. In 2015, Texas attracted attention when it was discovered a social studies textbook approved for use in the state called African slaves who were brought to the United States, “[workers]

(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/publisher-promises-revisions-after-textbook-refers-to-african-slaves-as-workers.html)”

We are closer to revisionist history than you may think. All you need to do is create enough fear of punishment for disobedience.