On George Orwell's "1984"
Writ Large
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Orwell's Writ Large Is a Dystopia
Orwell's utopia of his dreams seem to stay lingering at the horizons of his sight ever out of reach. He was always waiting for the revolution to happen that will change everything and he didn't understand that in his own process of urging revolution there's still a revolution that's happening. The contemporary relevance of the book that way is sadly still you know depicting uh a dystopia that urgently needs to be warded off writ large: We're still in that moment in a sense I mean none of those issues have been resolved about policing about war making forever wars, degradation of languages if anything much much much worse now than then.
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