Why 2017 isn’t like 1984: Experts argue today’s world of alternative facts is actually STRANGER than Orwell’s vision

‘A week after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s ‘1984’ is the best-selling book on Amazon.com.
The hearts of a thousand English teachers must be warmed as people flock to a novel published in 1949 for ways to think about their present moment.
Orwell set his story in Oceania, one of three blocs or mega-states fighting over the globe in 1984.
There has been a nuclear exchange, and the blocs seem to have agreed to perpetual conventional war, probably because constant warfare serves their shared interests in domestic control. Oceania demands total subservience.’
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