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1984 is not important because it's broadly anti-government. I think calling it anti-government is a mischaracterization, because it describes a very unhealthy a
by smolder 4y ago
1984 is not important because it's broadly anti-government. I think calling it anti-government is a mischaracterization, because it describes a very unhealthy and specific kind of government: one that wields its might to manage the minutia of everyone's lives as it sees fit, putting its own survival above their well-being. I just want to be clear that opposing authoritarian or totalitarian government is not opposition to government generally.
- RC_ITR 4y ago1984 is about the effects of permanent ongoing war between fractionalized states; and the implication is that ongoing war produces totalitarianism. He didn't set out to show totalitarianism was bad, because that was self evident in 1948.
- zosima 4y agoNonsense. There was support for Soviet in parts of the intelligentsia, see e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five Orwell, had been or was still a convinced socialist, however he did not believe in soviet communism, and wrote the book as a warning, after having seen Stalins troops up close in Spain. Orwell's earlier book animal farm is much on the same theme.
- RC_ITR 4y ago> and the implication is that ongoing war produces totalitarianism. You think the Cambridge 5 supported the totalitarian aspects of the USSR and not the communist ideals?