The Banality of Autocracy
11 min readJun 30, 2020
What Orwell got right, and wrong, about power in the Age of Trump
The prescience of George Orwell’s 1984 is near-universally acknowledged across America. In this 1948 dystopian sci-fi novel that exhaustively details the workings and philosophies of a terrifyingly successful totalitarian government of the future, we find an analogue for seemingly every act of deception, repression and cruelty perpetrated by modern…
