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George Orwell - 1984 Wasn’t Fiction!
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George Orwell didn’t just write about dystopias—he saw them forming in real time.
British writer, journalist, and relentless truth-teller, Orwell carved his legacy not with idealism, but with unflinching clarity. His time in colonial Burma taught him the mechanics of imperial cruelty. The Spanish Civil War showed him how ideologies rot from within. And the grinding poverty of England stripped away any romanticism about the working class struggle.
What emerged from that crucible were stories that cut like blades—Animal Farm, a deceptively simple fable that ends in betrayal, and 1984, a nightmarish prophecy of surveillance, thought control, and the annihilation of the individual.
Orwell didn’t warn us about the future. He mapped the horrors of the present with terrifying precision—and forced us to look.
Join Keith as he explores the haunted, brutal world of George Orwell—where language is a weapon, truth is a casualty, and freedom is always one lie away from extinction.
This isn’t just literature. This is a manifesto for survival.
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