re: #427 Dark_Falcon

Good point. Sometimes I misuse the book in that fashion. And I had forgotten for a moment that you were around, you who had adapted the book for the stage. Sorry for the error. I should have used a more direct condemnation of the contempt for others and for the truth shown by tyrants and their lackeys.

It’s not an error Dark, in my opinion, just a little hyperbole. I spent a lot of time with “Orwel,” not just with his book, in the sense that I read just about everything he wrote that had an emphasis on politics.

And if you really get into his head, you realize that “1984” was in no way a tract against socialism, or the National Socialist or the various other political parties that inhibited his world… except on… totalitarianism… the vilest of the political systems. And nothing anyone in any of these other political systems, including OURS, have come close to experiencing totalitarianism.