Mastodawn

I actually see a lot of parallels between Orwell, Swift, and Trump!

All 3 were rejected by a class that they desperately wanted to be a part of, and so turned their disgust for the lower classes into a weapon against "the establishment"

Now I'm always wary of satire, because it is often seeded in truth

https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/isaac-asimov-reviews-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four.html

#orwell #satire

Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”

Here in the twenty-twenties, a young reader first hearing of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four would hardly imagine it to be a work of science fiction.

Open Culture

Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Nineteen Eighty-Four