mikraz

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January 24 Much as I said of my reading of 1984

Or consider another passage in Nineteen Eighty-Four where Orwell describes a feature of life on Airstrip One (Britain). "The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention." Orwell would have recognised a lot of things from his dystopia in our world – not just the lottery, but the loss of privacy through intruding technology, the degradation of language, the waging of proxy wars by superpowers, the disappearance and sequestration of political dissidents.

I read that book to late in life and it just didn't seem as sensational as it perhaps should have.