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Stating The Obvious 0864 – 1984 Is Not A Warning, It’s An Instruction Manual – Episode V: Preventing The True Nature of Present Day Society From Being Perceived. — 1 Comment

  1. You could do one hell of a podcast on Orwell’s analysis of women and their role in the dystopian/totalitarian state: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party”

    The description of Winston’s wife has got to be one of the most darkly funny dissections of a certain type of woman:

    “Katharine was a tall, fair-haired girl, very straight, with splendid movements. She had a bold, aquiline face, a face that one might have called noble until one discovered that there was as nearly as possible nothing behind it….she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. ‘The human sound-track’ he nicknamed her in his own mind.”

    That approximately describes 90 percent of my female coworkers.

    What do you think of Julia?

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