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When Orwell wrote 1984 with it's constant surveillance, he had "late-stage capitalism" in mind? Are you saying that totalitarian governments wouldn't have made
by goatlover 4y ago
When Orwell wrote 1984 with it's constant surveillance, he had "late-stage capitalism" in mind? Are you saying that totalitarian governments wouldn't have made use of technological innovation to spy on their citizens, including worker output?
- shakezula 4y agoI think the thing that is so beautiful about 1984 is that people almost universally think their side is the "right" side when they discuss the book. It's like how proponents of eugenics or voting rights laws assume they would pass the litmus tests they push. I'm saying that I don't understand or need your hypothetical totalitarian government when the article is about real corporate bosses doing this today, in our capitalist system.