Why you need to (re)read 1984 -- ASAP - by Alex Berenson

Orwell's dystopian classic never fully went away. But six years after Covid lockdowns returned it to center stage, China, mass surveillance and AI-generated propaganda make it more relevant than ever. - Alex Berenson - (FIRST OF TWO PARTS)

You’ve read 1984.
Even if you haven’t, you think you have. 

Everyone knows its most famous slogans, testimony to the power of propaganda to warp minds. 

• Big Brother Is Watching. 
• Two Plus Two Equals Five. 
• Freedom Is Slavery. 
• War is Peace.

So why take the time to read George Orwell’s novel (again)?...

Yet this weekend I reopened 1984 for the first time in many years — and found it more relevant than it has been at least since the fall of the Soviet Union...
As I read I realized I had forgotten the visceral horrors of the world Orwell created in his pages...