“George Orwell’s 1984 was published at about the time that Kim Il Sung set up his system, and it really is as if he got hold of an early copy of the novel and used it as a blueprint.” – Christopher Hitchens George Orwell was a journalist, novelist, and veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
Had he known that by writing 1984 he also became a soothsayer, the thought would have sickened him worse than tuberculosis that took his life at the age of 46. In his prophetic novel, Orwell envisioned Ingsoc, a totalitarian regime that controlled every aspect of its subjects’ lives.
The language that contradicted Ingsoc’s party line was censored to the point where even dissident thought was growing impossible; Now we need no government influence at all to abolish “politically incorrect” ideas from public discourse.
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