When I die, I am going to hell and my eternal punishment will be having to sit around and read “1984” until the end of time. Honestly, is there a more over referenced or overly discussed novel than “1984”? Listen. Despite the tone of this post, I actually don’t have an issue with Orwell. I think he’s a brilliant writer and his works are still as just as relevant now as they were back then, so that counts for something – counts for a lot, even. Thing is, that’s the issue, his works are still super relevant which means there’s no escaping them, it means every walk of life I’ll come across some wise guy who’ll ask me, ‘have you read 1984, bro?’’ and when I tell him I have, he’ll start telling me how it’s so relevant to the world we live in, and how Orwell was a genius and predicted the future. Me, being the polite guy I am, won’t tell him how sick of “1984” discourse I am. Or how annoying I find it that the most famous reality TV show in the world cri

bbed its name from a novel that was WRITTEN AS A CAUTIONARY TALE. F*CK. Is me writing a blog post about a novel that I’m sick of talking about the same as trying to escape a prison by setting fire to it? Excuse me while I figure out how to answer that totally non-rhetorical question in newspeak.

A modern interpretation of 1984, theobjectivestandard.com https://theobjectivestandard.com/2023/02/the-terrifying-prescience-of-george-orwells-1984/ <29/04/24>