1984 Book Review | Folio Society Edition

Brief review of George Orwell's ever pertinent anti-communist and anti-fascist standard, 1984.

This video contains some spoilers for the novel, as well as total spoilers for The Folio Society edition with all its illustrations.

[texans]

Almost to 100, keep going and stay consistent, love watching your videos .

[rattles]

Great video and a beautiful book! Just to point something out here, George Orwell was a staunch socialist all the way throughout his life. His critique was with fascism and stalinism, not communism. His issue was with the idea of a vanguard leading the proletariat. Orwell was a proponent of democratic socialism/communism, otherwise known as libertarian socialism. He was also criticizing the west. Minitru is literally taken from his time at the BBC.

[garlandofbooks]

Oh man, that Folio cover is frightening!! Cool edition though! I reread 1984 and several dystopians in the last 2 years. I also read Fahrenheit 451 for the 1st time, have you read that one? I thought it was so good. Each of them speak to a little different view of a dystopian world.

I’ve definitely seen an increase in cultural encouragement for children to find cultural/political “faults” in their parents and expose them to the world, growing closer to 1984.
I’ve also seen tons of things memory holed in our society 😬 and of course the declining attention spans helps that along.

I was reminded of Ingsoc’s mottoes just a few days ago when I saw Newsom’s ad campaign where he advertises for abortion and quotes the words of Jesus out of context to love your neighbor as yourself - it was like a propo our of the Ministry of Love, “murder is love” being the core message.