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I don't understand George Orwell.
He basically wrote about his own country in 1984, but somehow it was supposed to be a critique of socialism??
Orwell doesn't really ask: "Why have people become the way they are?" He just connects the dots, but he doesn't think they can change. That's how you get 1984
Basically he lacks dialectical materialism. If you consider what doublethink is, it adds up.
Bad things are bad when bad people do them
But they're good when good people do them!
Literally Harry Potter's moral paradigm
British literature really is something
he even predicted that socialist (labour party) would do it