• Goku@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Orwell was either clairvoyant and had Divine visions of the future or he was a time traveler. I’m convinced.

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      2 days ago

      He was intimately familiar with the Soviet modus operandi. What he talked about was a reality in Eastern Europe for many decades. My own family way back when told me that every apartment had a speaker installed in the living room which would spout propaganda- you could turn the volume off but you could never turn the radio off.

      I’ve said for a long time that the USA has been going more and more towards a Stalinist society, and I stand by that claim.