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I never read this book. I bought it at some point in mid-2020 and it was too real, i had to put it down because it was making me angry.

I think Animal's farm is better and a lot closer to our current system

Some people think that 1984 is mostly about surveillance, but that’s a superficial reading IMO. I think it’s a lot more about bending the truth and suppressing ideas.

A quote that haunts me: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” Do we have that freedom in the west, today? Will we have it tomorrow? It’s a lot less clear than one would hope.

Exactly.

Surveillance is one of the methods of control, but it's really about oppressing the way people think, shaping it to suit the needs of The Party.

It seems some people say they have read it even when they haven't. (Citation needed.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y83UkvHpYk

I can believe that more people started to read it than actually finished it. Plot points from the latter half of the book are only referenced very rarely.