Comment by regularization
2 days ago
About seven years before he was sending letters to the British Foreign Office of who to blackball during the UK's version of the Red Scare - people like Charlie Chaplin.
He even wrote a book a year before this (1984) denouncing societies that had people denouncing each other for political heresy. Psychological projection. What a htpocrite.
Pretty interesting, I had no idea about this:
The George Orwell Paradox: From Spy Target to Informant https://spyscape.com/article/surveillance-state-how-british-...
I think most people stop at 1984 or animal farm and have no idea what Orwell really thought about society and politics.
Yeah. Western hegemony has an interest in presenting the Animal Farm guy a certain way.
Yes very much so. Thankfully someone in this thread (even if only you) saying the correct context.