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When people say "orwellian", they're often thinking "1984". I'm thinking "Animal Farm". It's a process, a takeover of the mind. It doesn't start with governmen
by galacticpony2 9y ago
When people say "orwellian", they're often thinking "1984".
I'm thinking "Animal Farm". It's a process, a takeover of the mind. It doesn't start with government and doesn't end at government.
To be fair, it's not "orwellian" in literally every sense of the word, that was just a figure of speech.
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