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I have no doubt that if the Party thought people would draw a parallel between them and the Party in 1984, it would be banned. The fact is, China is nothing li

I have no doubt that if the Party thought people would draw a parallel between them and the Party in 1984, it would be banned. The fact is, China is nothing like Oceania, or even the Soviet Union. Certain political discussions are censored, but otherwise people have almost entirely free reign to live their lives how they see fit. The only state that even remotely resembles the world described in 1984 these days is North Korea.

contingencies 12y ago
The only state... I see many parallels in Singapore, the 'Disneyland with the Death Penalty'[1] where a carefully cultivated, ever-youthful cross-section of public workers (police, army, etc.) forcibly intrude upon the departing or transiting traveller even as they flee at the airport gate lounge. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Penalty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pena...