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Does 1984 reference any real world politics? We think it would've been cute had Big Brother played a sax, à la Bill Clinton, but no one asked us.
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Nineteen Eighty for
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politics last month There's nineteen Eighty for reference Any riel
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world politics It's definitely referencing orwell's politics in his reactions
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to what he saw as government propaganda orwell also had
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very clear feelings about language and how it affect people's
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ability to think so who basically said our thoughts become
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foolish when we use sort of degraded language By that
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he just meant people who didn't know how to write
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clearly and simply orwell was israel advocate for here direct
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language And that idea that american culture was kind of
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degrading and becoming more casual was also really important to
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him Does nineteen Eighty for reference Any riel world politics
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