My memory of "1984" was that the worst oppression was mostly directed at the upper middle class and low-end wealthy--basically the people the powerful elites were most concerned with. The rank-and-file citizenry was kept poor, ignorant, and largely powerless but not necessarily all that heavily oppressed in the direct sense. At least that's my admittedly dim memory of a book I read perhaps 25 or 30 years ago and did not particularly care for.
We're in a future all our own. Just about nobody saw the internet coming and the impact of social media and the internet has far exceeded the ability of human cultures to keep pace. Today's troubles will be one of the corrections that must inevitably occur as society tries to catch up. There will be others.
Danth
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07-09-2020, 06:45 PM
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