Unhappy birthday, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four!

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@dnealy

we ironically and arrogantly named a reality show after Big Brother and the reality show became our lives

Previously:

Orwell explains Nineteen Eighty-Four

While Orwell’s ideas about Big Brother, Minitrue, Minilove etc. certainly stuck with me, I always thought the biggest takeaway from 1984 was the treatment of what later became known as the Third World (“Between the frontiers of the super-states, and not permanently in the possession of any of them, there lies a rough quadrilateral with its corners at Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin, and Hong Kong”), and in a close second, the super-states’ military buildup (“A Floating Fortress, for example, has lo…