This book is not actually about the United States, despite the lore. It's about post WWII state socialism, more or less in Britain, but ambiguously global. It's a critique of technocracy- the rule of experts and sociological solutions, the erasure of the individual. While a critique, Orwell is not a booster for capitalism in this book, but a writer afraid of losing words and fearing generations of bad writers. Even though we throw around newspeak and others -speaks, Orwell's argument is that politics is about language. I had forgotten how much of the book is spent describing the mechanics of language and thought control. Torture scenes are apropo, as well. A timeless book about state power...
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This book is not actually about the United States, despite the lore. It's about post WWII state socialism, more or less in Britain, but ambiguously global. It's a critique of technocracy- the rule of experts and sociological solutions, the erasure of the individual. While a critique, Orwell is not a booster for capitalism in this book, but a writer afraid of losing words and fearing generations of bad writers. Even though we throw around newspeak and others -speaks, Orwell's argument is that politics is about language. I had forgotten how much of the book is spent describing the mechanics of language and thought control. Torture scenes are apropo, as well. A timeless book about state power...
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