2019-06-07 | 1984, by George Orwell: On Its Enduring Relevance - The Atlantic
'No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. '
'It’s almost impossible to talk about propaganda, surveillance, authoritarian politics, or perversions of truth without dropping a reference to 1984. '
'I was too young and historically ignorant to understand where 1984 came from and exactly what it was warning against. '
'Throughout the Cold War, the novel found avid underground readers behind the Iron Curtain who wondered, How did he know?'
'Orwell’s novel was paired with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, whose hedonistic and pharmaceutical dystopia seemed more relevant to a California teenager in the 1970s than did the bleak sadism of Oceania. '
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'No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. '
'It’s almost impossible to talk about propaganda, surveillance, authoritarian politics, or perversions of truth without dropping a reference to 1984. '
'I was too young and historically ignorant to understand where 1984 came from and exactly what it was warning against. '
'Throughout the Cold War, the novel found avid underground readers behind the Iron Curtain who wondered, How did he know?'
'Orwell’s novel was paired with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, whose hedonistic and pharmaceutical dystopia seemed more relevant to a California teenager in the 1970s than did the bleak sadism of Oceania. '
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