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What characters journey really bothered you? (lazysoci.al)

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[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Why 1984 always hit more. Dude was writing from actual lived experience.

[-] loomy@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago

you should read his journals, he thought Hitler was too big of a bafoon to ever become a real threat. 1984 was pretty close to just a Stalin documentary though.

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

True but it was also his view on something that could happen to england. His view on how an established totalitarian system modelled after Stalinism could take hold and look like in the UK.

Basically written as a sort of warning.