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1984 by George Orwell: Why the Book is More Real in 2026 Than Ever Before [Ficction]
Orwell imagined a state that could watch everything you did. The more disturbing idea was that surveillance was only the beginning: real power meant deciding what was true.1984 is George Orwell’s final novel, a world of permanent war, rewritten history and language deliberately made smaller. Through Winston Smith, Orwell follows what happens when a government no longer settles for obedience and begins demanding control over memory, thought and even the evidence of reality itself.This episode reads the novel through the machinery behind that control: the Ministry of Truth, Newspeak, O’Brien’s…
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