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George Orwell's Surprising Stance on Hypocrisy #Orwell

George Orwell's Surprising Stance on Hypocrisy
George Orwell was deeply concerned about hypocrisy—but in the opposite way you might expect. That’s what struck me about halfway through writing my new book The Hypocrisy Trap. Orwell spent his career hacking away at humbug and falsehoods and famously warned how language gets corrupted by “a gap

Orwell wrote
Nineteen Eighty-Four
not as a prophecy
but as an extrapolation and a warning.
As he explained:
“I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive.
But I believe, allowing, of course, for the fact that the book is a satire,
that something resembling it could arrive.”

1984 revisited: George Orwell would be relieved at how we’ve done
It’s common to suggest the great dystopian novel was full of warnings that have largely come true. But the evidence shows otherwise

Just posting this excellent quote which has no bearing on recent or current events in any way shape or form .
#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

Rewatching the 1984 film version of 1984, as I haven't seen it since high school. They showed it to us in class in the 90s. Been a lot of years. John Hurt ftw
#film

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

In Orwell's "1984," there is a character named Emmanuel Goldstein who is the object of a daily "Two Minutes Hate" ritual. Goldstein is a fiction, created by the state to focus anger away from itself: a scapegoat. We don't quite have such a figure today ((George Soros is as close as they can get)) but we have entire classes of people defined as evil, and a media machine that broadcasts hate 24 hours a day.
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