It's really fucking insulting that Musk wore that "What Would Orwell Think?" shirt, itself Orwellian. Especially because we actually *know* what Orwell would think.
I've been reading a lot of Orwell's articles and letters from around 1939-1943 and it's really eerie just how much aligns. Orwell was writing for left-leaning newsletters that literally called themselves "anti-fascist" and was more afraid than anything about the world domination of fascism and nazi'ism.
We know what Orwell would think because Orwell was literally writing about many of the same things that are happening right now, just 90 years earlier. He's very clear about what he thinks, and when he writes, you realize just how many of the same things are happening *right now*.
It's right there. We know what Orwell would think. He wrote about it.
If you want to read what Orwell thought, there is a book written from this exact time frame prescient to this moment in history collecting Orwell's letters: "My Country, Left to Right"
I highly recommend getting a copy
EDIT: copy here https://orwell.ru/library/articles/My_Country/english/e_mcrol (thx @Greg ) though that's only of one of the letters. There's many others in the *book* "My Country, Left to Right"
@cwebber The man could write.
(I read 1984 once, when I was much younger, and it is the most frightening thing I've ever read in my life. The ending still haunts me…)
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
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