Somehow I had forgotten just how dark and bleak 1984 by George Orwell is. I'm sure that as time passes this novel will sadly become more and more relevant. The novel follows Winston Smith in a dystopian future where the government puts people under constant surveillance, changes history to match their goals and attempts to make everyone think in a specific way. He tries to rebel, gets caught and is tortured until he changes his way of thinking.
There are a lot of concepts discussed but the one I found most interesting was doublethink, which is the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time. This seems to have become a mainstay of current politics. I could name examples but really all you'd have to do is turn on the news and see someone spout something that totally contradicts itself. Even though it is a bummer, it gets an A+.
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