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(OD-4): Literature and Politics: Dystopic Novels: BNW and 1984

THOUGHT CRIME DOES NOT ENTALL DEATH                                   THOUGHT CRIME IS DEATH” (PG: 27, CH.2 1984 George Orwell)


The post-truth era certainly shares aspects of the dystopian world of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Michael Gove’s infamous comment that Britain has had enough of experts is just one step away from 2+2 = 5. In the interrogation scene in 1984 this is the most appalling moment: before now we read it as a ludicrous indictment of the rejection of reality (surely, we conclude, the party itself must know that 2+2 = 4; science, machines all depend on it). In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the elite, personified by O’Brien, foster and control this willingness to believe one thing one day, and one thing another. Now, it seems, the party itself may believe the lie. As Orwell writes: “Science, in the old sense, had almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for science.”
“TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE” (PG.228,CH.9)
But this new world has been a while coming. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts” were foreshadowed by the George W Bush adviser who said in 2002 that the new American empire was “creating [its] own reality”. As in the 1930s, war has been at the heart of the corrosion of trust in politicians. The lies over Iraq and the quagmire of Afghanistan were followed by the financial crash of 2008, and bankers’ bonuses – making people far more willing to disbelieve the remote metropolitan media and be drawn to the false dawn promised by Trump.
WE SHALL MEET IN THE PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO DARKNEES(Pg22,ch21984 George Orwell)
Meanwhile, it is worth asking what the average person is supposed to do in a landscape where the leader of what used to be called the free world has such a wanton disregard for one of the principal tools of freedom. Even Big Brother, after all, brought a certain amount of guile to pretending what he said was true. 
As our politics have grown increasingly tribalistic and our discourse has been flooded with propaganda and “fake news,” reality has become more and more illusory. Now a dangerous demagogue who could have only been dreamed up by the collective imagination of Orwell and Huxley has risen to power by crafting his own absurd reality.
As in Orwell’s time, we are drowning in filth. Let us hope we can find a way to pull ourselves out.
HE LOVES BIG BROTHERS (Pg245, ch11,1984 George Orwell)
“People that say facts are facts — they’re not really facts,” remarked Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes earlier this month, while seemingly describing the philosophy of Trumpism. “Everybody has a way — it’s kind of like looking at ratings, or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth, or not truth. There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”


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