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A comment on George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens. Parent comment

Re:George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens by bitwize on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:43PM (#25410603)
> No. I think he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of, and then projecting that a little into the future.

He was extrapolating mostly from Stalin's USSR. This is well-known.

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