It really is remarkable how straight down the line the Democrats are playing out that novel in real life. They even have their own Emmanuel Goldstein in Donald Trump.
en.wikipedia.org
Read the book as an adult, in context with what's going on today, and you'll be like "Holy chit".
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. "
Is that Twitter or what?
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia
Read the book as an adult, in context with what's going on today, and you'll be like "Holy chit".
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. "
Is that Twitter or what?
