We are in 1984
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thisguy058:20a
The extent to which our society resembles the world Orwell conjured in 1984 is staggering. I could elaborate for a hundred pages, but consider just the news of the past week:
The Biles business triggered me. It is pure doublethink! She quit in her team and is being lauded as a hero. And it's only gonna get worse when she competes in her individual events. So stunning and brave.
The January 6 hearings taking place are a real world example of a ministry of truth constantly rewriting history. What happened took place live on tv barely 6 months ago, and already it's misremembered (intentionally, from the beginning). In another 6 months, two years, five, future history books, it'll have been a violent attempted coup (don't even get me started on Trump as the left's Goldstein).
Boris Johnson's government announced a health initiative to promote exercise. This is literally addressed in chapter 2 of 1984 with compulsory exercise as directed through the telescreen.
Mask mandates, lockdowns, etc, couldn't be more effective at controlling the populace if they'd been written by the Party itself. These presently serve the role of 1984's perpetual war.
Newspeak abounds (latinx, anti-racist, lgbtlmnop etc, ad nauseam), thoughtcrime is rampant (cancel culture), and we haven't even started with actual totalitarian regimes (goodbye, Hong Kong, sucks to be you, Cuba).
If you haven't read 1984, I encourage you to do so immediately. Orwell was basically right about everything except that the orthodoxy would have to be enforced by the government. Our culture is poisoned, and our society is doomed.