Yes, insert obligatory "Orwell was a POS" remark here, but didn't Orwell himself say that the book wasn't *only* about decaying vanguard socialism and could apply to any kind of society that gets to that level of mass-surveillance and individual restriction?
I mean, it makes sense with the book. With the Internet and the amount of surveillance that both the US government and big tech companies are doing, people living in the US now are under a lot more surveillance than anyone in the Eastern Bloc ever was. Of course, clowns like Rubin will never understand that this surveillance will be used against those who threaten power and capital, not right-wing grifters.
EDIT: But perhaps that's just literary analysis. He definitely had shitting on communists in mind when he wrote the book.
Yes, insert obligatory "Orwell was a POS" remark here, but didn't Orwell himself say that the book wasn't *only* about decaying vanguard socialism and could apply to any kind of society that gets to that level of mass-surveillance and individual restriction?
With your knowledge of what kind of a person Orwell was, why would you trust his word on this?
I mean, it makes sense with the book. With the Internet and the amount of surveillance that both the US government and big tech companies are doing, people living in the US now are under a lot more surveillance than anyone in the Eastern Bloc ever was. Of course, clowns like Rubin will never understand that this surveillance will be used against those who threaten power and capital, not right-wing grifters.
EDIT: But perhaps that's just literary analysis. He definitely had shitting on communists in mind when he wrote the book.
Oh he knows. This is purely an act for the rubes.
Counterpoint: Rubin specifically is very dim. The others know though.