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LAL #027 — On Orwell's "1984": The Imperative of Individual Significance
I re-read Orwell’s 1984 the other day — one of the joys afforded by cross-country travel is the plenty of downtime in airports and on planes. How well does Orwell’s fears of a totalitarian society account for what we have become, and are becoming?
The work is bleak, as those of you who read it through to the end know. But don’t assume that just because Communism has failed as an ideology that Orwell has less to say to us now than he he did in 1949, when the work was first published
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I re-read Orwell’s 1984 the other day — one of the joys afforded by cross-country travel is the plenty of downtime in airports and on planes. How well does Orwell’s fears of a totalitarian society account for what we have become, and are becoming?
The work is bleak, as those of you who read it through to the end know. But don’t assume that just because Communism has failed as an ideology that Orwell has less to say to us now than he he did in 1949, when the work was first published