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A lot of people who hadn’t known George Orwell’s name before became familiar with it sometime between 2020 and 2022.

His actual name was Eric Arthur Blair, with Orwell being the pen name of this English author, essayist, critic, and some say, insider to the world of the rich and powerful.

His two most well known books are Animal Farm (1945), an allegorical novel about a group of domesticated animals who rebel against their human farmer and seek a Utopian world in which all are equal and free (it works out about as well as any Utopian plan put forth by humans) and Nineteen Eighty Four (1949) a dystopian novel of what was then the future, describing a totalitarian and authoritarian society in which the masses are ruled by a Big Brother who is not benevolent at all. (No pseudo relatives in power are, be they Uncle Sam or Uncle Joe.)

Orwell coined phrases such as “newspeak” (love is hate; war is peace), Thought Police, and thought crime, terms that quite accur...

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