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I doubt he wrote that then, given he'd been dead for 34 years at that point.
by detritus 1y ago
I doubt he wrote that then, given he'd been dead for 34 years at that point.
- sertsa 1y agoIt’s from the book “1984”, published in 1949.
- detritus 1y agoSadly you ignored the main takeaway from the quotation, "ignorance is strength".
- hagbard_c 1y agoNeither of these are applicable to the return of the War Department. This on-the-nose name for the department leaves nothing to guess about its purpose - war clearly is not peace and ignorance of that fact is not strength hence the name War Department instead of Ministry of Peace.
- computerthings 1y ago[dead]
- rmonvfer 1y agoI’m pretty sure he’s quoting the book
- jhanschoo 1y agoOn the other hand, I think anyone who knows when Orwell died should know Noneteen-Eighty-Four, so the comment should be seen as a joke, though it helps to give a textual signal like /jk