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A wee morning thought for you to ponder on....
Was Orwells's 1984 a prophetic warning of a disotopian future by a visionary? A modern day Nostradamus?
Or was he a politically connected actor putting the long term plans out "in plain sight"? 🤔
Keen to hear your thoughts on this
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The last one. Orwell was very connected and his talents utilized for nefarious purposes.
IMO.
Tend to agree with you on this one Beave!
The same with Huxley.
I also might be convinced that up to a point, Heinlin, too. But after his brain tumor was removed... I think he might have had a change of heart or mind.... 😅
Yup...Huxley was Eton/Oxford educated and his brother was the director of the UN and prominent figure in the field of rugenics . He wasn't just having a lucky guess either. Still....great books tho 😅
Yes. They had to be very good to be selected to do those things. They're all very talented. The books truly are excellent.
It was a warning imo.
You think he already knew the plan and was warning us?
Consensus view is 1984 was a cautionary tale to warn the masses. Who knows?
Sure I'm onboard with that. But how did he know?
I mean…Ayn Rand made similar predictions of where things may go. People are making long range predictions of where Bitcoin will take us. Some will probably be pretty accurate.
I think it’s just good sci fy. The success has to be reflective of him as an author, and he wasn’t a one hit wonder either.
He's undoubtedly highly skilled as a writer. How do you think he was able to be so accurate though when (allegedly) we only had rudimental technology at the time? Maybe visions from God? From dreams? Channelled information? Or just a lucky guess? He made up this futuristic fantasy from his own imagination and it just happened to play out as he described? 🤔
I have often wondered the same thing. I think it was just prophetic.
I mean, it could be 🤷♀️ Maybe people can and do predict 80 years into the future with impressive accuracy. But then you look at his family connections 😬
You have gone deeper than I have on this. Please tell me more. It’s uncanny how close to today’s reality his words have become. I just finished the book a short time ago.
It's one of my favourite books too if I'm being honest 😂 but I do wonder how he knew what he knew. Consider that "His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of plantations in Jamaica. His grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair, was a clergyman and the gentility passed down the generations" Is it possible he was privy to the plan? 🤷♀️
I think that he just based his story of what happen after the Spanish civil war...
What measures made the government to control de people but exaggerating...
Thought crimes, rewriting of history, destruction of the family unit, mass surveillance, newspeak. Did these things happen after the Spanish civil war? Genuinely curious 🤔
Except the destruction of the family unit (we started a dictatorship based on catholic values) everything else was more or less similar.
Because they start to find out were was the people who lose the battle to kill them. Also, the neighbors declare to the police were they were and a lot of times, you lived in a constant fear bc even if you weren't from the opposite side they could kill you for whatever reason saying that you were republican.
There were also a lot of lies around the recent history and people tend to avoid certain topics to not get into trouble...
As I said, the author based some aspects in what's was lives just after the civil war and he adds some that doesn't happend but he imagine it could such as the destruction of family.
Sorry for the long response 😅😅😅
Long response appreciated 🫶 I didn't know this. I knew Homage to Catalonia was based on the Spanish Civil War. He was still eerily accurate though huh? With an uncanny ability to accurately predict future tech capabilities 🤷♀️ I still wonder whether this was some sort of divine/spiritual guidance or "disclosure of the plan". The lucky guess thing just doesn't resonate with me as being likely 🤔 I'll say it again though...great book 😂
I think that he had a lot of knowledge of how politics works and he start to imagine which actions a governor could take to preserve his power and suppress all the dissidence 🤷🤷
The fact that we are living in prime time some aspects that he mention on the book just indicates that he was right and we must continue to explain the importance the decentralization of the power. In our case, the decentralization of money.
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