![]() Letting people drown and starve without helping is just 'protecting our western values' now. Build walls and overturn elections is 'becoming more free' now. Doesn't mean anything that some of those groups have diametrically opposed goals. From Internationalism, to anticapitalism, to capitalism all the way to a secret Jewish cabal. Instead it is now a nebulous buzzword for everything I want to point it at. 'Globalism'? That word now doesn't mean what it actually means anymore. 'Everyone who doesn't tune in to the song we sing is the victim of a secret manipulative orwellian conspiracy'.ĭown to newspeak. I just love how the people Orwell wanted to warn us from started using Orwell as a standard argument to point at everyone that's not towing the line of their bubble. "globalist" "New World Order" "try manufacturing another mega-crisis. By combining traits from both the Soviet Union's and Germany's totalitarian states, Orwell makes clear that he is staunchly against any form of governmental totalitarianism, either from the left or the right of the political spectrum." "Big Brother is certainly a fusing of both Stalin and Hitler, both real and terrifying leaders, though both on opposite sides of the philosophical spectrum. Winston is taken from Winston Churchill, the exalted leader of wartime England, and Smith is the most common last name in the English language, thus allowing readers to see him as Orwell intended: an ordinary man who makes a valiant effort in extraordinary circumstances." Also, it's not a coincidence that the protagonist of 1984 is named "Winston". Orwell wrote in praise of Churchill, and his last written piece before his death was a review of Churchill's war memoir "Their Finest Hour". Big Brother is all of them to some extent, and he is none of them specifically. Big Brother is Stalin, Pol Pot, Franco, Mao, Hitler and, yes, to a lesser extent even Churchill. The methodology of authoritarianism is the focal point. The Ingsoc or Oceania are a placeholder for any such structure. It could have been a socialist movement, or a fascist one, swimming in a sea of populist and anticapitalist rhetoric. Because it doesn't make a difference in the end. I think It is no coincidence that 1984 is so ambivalent to where exactly the Regime has its real ideological origins. How it creeps in and how it asserts control. Orwell was primarily concerned with populist authoritarianism. On the other hand, he stayed a socialist. In light of this, and his works inspired by this, 'Homage to Catalonia' and 'Animal Farm', he definitely had a chick to pluck with Leninist-Style Socialism. ![]() Orwell had his own run-in with Stalinists in the Spanish Civil War. Big Brother was everyone who fills that role.
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