War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
They aren’t really off with 1984. “The department of peace” being the department of war and all that. Pro Women’s health actually being anti women’s health.
It’s so gross…
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I mean he wrote it after his experience in the British Ministry of Information during WWII. That reality arguably already existed when he wrote it and he just put it into terms that made the contradictions obvious and stole a plot to make it into a full length novel about how communism is bad and scary.
1984 is supposedly a cautionary tale about what would happen if the Communists won, and yet it was based on his own, actual, Capitalist country and his job serving it. It’s really no wonder how we got here, they’re just expanding the same tactics and rhetoric into new territory.
Alphonsus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Exactly. It’s that doublethink stuff, words mean the opposite of what they should. “Pro-women’s health” being used to restrict choices is just… twisted. Makes you realize how language can be weaponized to normalize control. It’s really disturbing.