Being that it is 3:00 am, excuse any blatant grammatical errors I may make, after all you have to chillax because this is my blog (haha).
In 1984, Orwell tries to horrify his reader by warping things in society into something you'd see at a haunted house. Children beg to see men killed. Bombs constantly explode, severing limbs which are tossed off to the side. Babies are eaten by rats. Fights over insignificant things are sparked around every corner. Gin is the preferred beverage to water. Pornography is a mass marketed item. Sex is no longer sex. The dictionary is slowly dumbing everyone down, taking away personal expression. And worst of all, you can't even have individual thought! If I was around in 1949 when this book was published, on one hand, I would in no way believe this "garbage" (in reference to my opinion at the time). However (assuming I'm the average Joe Capitalist American), I would revel in the not-so-subtle anti-socialist theme that runs through it. Some of Orwell's claims are outlandish, crazy, (and in a word the man loves to use) lunatic. Even weirder thing about these proclamations: they are right. Hitler's regime mirrors that of the party in a horrifying fashion (with exception to the fact that Hitler was physically real). Acceptance of violence is getting younger and younger. In many communist nations and nations with ultra-nationalist parties, bombs are in fact going off uncontrollably, sent from, yes, their own country! In parts of India babies are tossed out on the streets. Alcoholism is a growing problem in the U.S. Pornography is one of the largest global markets. And in many countries like North Korea, steps are being taken to erase individual thought, through use of community. Offered alternative: clean cut democracy. But, also Capitalism because of the lack of forced "share" of all goods.
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