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[-] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago

George Orwell was off by a few decades, it seems.

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

While I understand your point, the biggest misconception about the 1984 book is that it's mainly about surveillance — it's about manipulation of words, e.g. Ministry of "Peace".

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The words led to the acceptance of the surveillance.

[-] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

While I understand your point, it was never implied in my comment that 1984 is mainly about surveillance — in fact, it implicitly drew a parallel to the fictional setting of 1984, e.g. "the dystopian future wherein total surveillance to control the narrative" appearing to have become reality.

[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

its definitely about a lot of things. what I found most interesting in it was the geographic areas that Oceania, eurasia and eastasia controlled, and the endless war and how that was needed to keep the system in place

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