The man was lucky that he was born when he was, and that he wrote his book “1984” when he did, a few years after WWII ended, in the early days of the cold war. Because if he had written it today, not only would his books not get read in schools, but he would have been decried as a conspiracy theorist and been banned from the majority of bookstores around the world. There would be multiple articles all over the world mocking and ridiculing George Orwell and calling his work “dangerous.” Karens all over the world would be book-burning.
Can you even imagine a book like 1984 written today?
“My Conspiracy theory predictions for year 2034” 😂 alluding to a tyrranical soviet-like culture taking over the world and society, cameras following you and police brutalizing you and telling you how to speak and what words you can’t use… old women will be whoring themselves on the streets to random men as their only opportunity for enjoyable sex. There is no fucking way this would NOT have been widely censored and labeled as “dangerous”, “cultural racism”, “incel”, or “conspiracy theories” if it was written today.
Most of these dismissive anti-intellectual SLURS (let’s call them what they are) did not even fucking exist back then to gaslight people for having an individual voice and opinion.
Orwell would’ve reveled at this demonstration of newspeak.