Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be.
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About George Orwell, 1984
George Orwell, 1984.
Themes
- Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power