Well, Orwell thought there would be a boot on our face forever, implying that he thought once the system was in place it would be sustained. I still haven’t read Nineteen Eighty-four….but I’ve heard about that bit where Winston asks the old man what things were like in the old days and all the man can do is mumble something about top hats. People can be lobotomised without surgery.

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