Orwell and the Intellectuals
Orwell and the Intellectuals

Summary/Abstract: It was George Orwell's merit to make 1984 into a symbol of the futurecharacterized by the suppression of human rights, the cherished values of individualism and liberalism, and a future signifying the end of democracy. Now we are there. The future has overtaken us. Why not push the future further into the future by inventing a new date. I suggest using 2020, being a well-formed, symmetrical numeral, giving us a few years both to figure out what the world would look like at that date and how we may prevent it from becoming so.

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