'You can turn it off!' he said.
'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'
(Nineteen Eighty Four)
'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'
(Nineteen Eighty Four)
An excellent book. I spent the first part of my life thinking it mainly spoke to the past (we learned our lesson, right?), and that a Brave New World style future was more likely, but now I think it’s deeper than that. Totalitarianism shows up because of a flaw in the human psyche, and we need to be fucking CAREFUL.