(January 13, 2022 at 3:55 am)Nomad Wrote:(January 12, 2022 at 7:30 pm)paulpablo Wrote: 1984 is probably one of my favourite books. From what I read somewhere I think it was a warning about communism and tight government control.
It wasn't a warning against communism, it was a warning against authoritarianism generally. Orwell reasoned at the time of writing that if authoritarian regimes did take over, they most likely would have been Stalinist. It was just after the war after all.
I wasn't sure where I'd read the book is about communism, I did an Internet search and in George Orewells own words.
"1984 was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant form of totalitarianism. But I was trying to imagine what communism would be like if it were rooted in the English speaking countries."
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
