@BowsacNoodle @Sirpantangelini @monarchist @TXPatriot2021 idk, there is a lot of 1984 stuff happening, people just seem to focus on the more hyped up stuff like outright military authoritarianism or total surveillance (which has been tolerable to a lot of people because they never had an efficient way to use all the information, which is going to change soon with AI, Snowden explained this when he first warned people what was happening). control of language, manipulation of history, control of peoples perception of things happening in the world...these were all big parts of the book that are all happening now. really, we're living in a synthesis of the two.