Shortly after Donald Trump's first election to the President of the United States, George Orwell Nineteen-four-four has become a bestseller again. Shooting at the top of the American charts, the novel that inspired the term “Orwellian” passed the latest opus by Danielle Steel, the poetry of Rupi Kaur, the eleventh Journal of a Wimpy kid Book, and the Memoirs of an ambitious young man named JD Vance. But what part of its renewed popularity due to the relevance of a vision of almost 70 years of shabby and totalitarian England in England in the 21st century, and how much, with regard to the influence on the image of the popular culture of political dystopia, no other work of literature is close?
For all the countless ways, one can criticize its two administrations, Trump's America has little superficial resemblance to the landing track of Oceania, as led by the party. But it can hardly be a coincidence that this period in history has also seen the concept “post-truth” becoming a must-see of the Zeitgeist.
There are many reasons for not wanting to live in the world that Orwell Imagine Nineteen-four-four: In -depth bureaucratization, lack of pleasure, surveillance and incessant propaganda. But none of this is as intolerable as what makes everything possible: the pretension of leaders to absolute control over the truth, a form of psychological manipulation limited to the diets that we consider evil.
As James Payne says in His big books explained the video on Nineteen-four-fourOrwell worked for the BBC abroad service during the war, and he received a disturbing education in the use of information as a political weapon. Experience has inspired the Ministry of Truth, where the protagonist of the novel Winston Smith spends his days rewrite history, and the dialect of NewspaperA seriously reduced English man designed to reduce the range of thoughts of its speakers. Orwell may have overestimated to the extent to which the language can be modified from top to bottom, but as Payne reminds us, we all hear the cultural warriors now describe reality in very inclined, politically loaded and often terms of reflection all day. Wherever we look at, someone is ready to tell ourselves that two plus two make five; If only they were as obvious on this subject as Big Brother.
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