I read Orwell’s 1984 in junior high in the 1970s, during the Nixon/Viet Nam era. I started it thinking it was just another scifi book about the future, but it

I read Orwell’s 1984 in junior high in the 1970s, during the Nixon/Viet Nam era. I started it thinking it was just another scifi book about the future, but it served as a really good inoculation against governmental lies and cant.