Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, but not about the potential totalitarianism of a capitalist, technologist dystopia—it was a portrait of Soviet Russia, and the mustached Big Brother was Stalin.
I feel like boomers being taught this is not only ironic but why so many of them have so much incorrect framing around large scale systems of dysfunction and injustice and why so many of them resort to a default mode of victimhood and projection whenever they're confronted with the consequences of their own actions. Hashtag are we the baddies; it was capitalism all along; etc
