"..every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day, minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - George Orwell - 1984

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[–]The_Lear_Bluce_Ree 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No they're using him as a playbook because they lack imagination amongst other things.

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I think not so much a prophet or a writer of a playbook, he was describing things he saw in the USSR and in UK society. Those countries already apparently had a playbook, or modus operandi for what they were doing, essentially trying to rewrite history.