1984 is extremely naive.

It assumes that people will fight for their freedom and insane measures will be needed to keep them in check.

So foolishly optimistic… people can’t wait to give freedom away if only they get a stable job and housing in exchange. Or if it hits these other guys they don’t like at the moment.

It’s all much, much less dramatic than Orwell. It is an ordinary, everyday erosion of your rights until one day you will realize that you lost something very important but it will be no longer possible to say it out loud.

One such example is China where all dissent was eliminated because people there prefer comfortable cage. Or Singapore. Seemingly majority doesn’t give a flying dick as long as government buys them.

Maybe the Orwellian times were different but it is what it is. It’s easier than ever to just buy people.

What an original thought.

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Look at the images tab. This is so cliché there are hundreds of mugs and t-shirts with it!