The 1984 Prophecy

[pr126]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOi-ccNvbk

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"prophecy" :chortle:

[Baruch]

"prophecy" :chortle:

It wasn't a cook book, but it was a guide book.  Same as Brave New World.  Orwell had experienced directly some of humanities self destructive activity when he was in the Spanish Civil War.  Fascists vs communists vs anarchists.  Human beings are usually self destructive and mutually destructive, but some more than others.  The people who are above average destructive are subject to justifiable repression by society.  Totalitarians are particularly destructive, and we are least successful in keeping such people out of power.

[Cavebear]

I love it when dates is sci-fi pass by.  1984, 2001, etc.

Do you know why Orwell chose 1984?  He reversed the numbers of the year he wrote it (1948). 

And, BTW, do you know why Joseph Heller chose the title Catch-22?  It is more complicated than I previously thought:

"The title is a reference to a fictional bureaucratic stipulation which embodies forms of illogical and immoral reasoning. The opening chapter of the novel was originally published in New World Writing as Catch-18 in 1955, but Heller's agent, Candida Donadio, requested that he change the title of the novel, so it would not be confused with another recently published World War II novel,Leon Uris's Mila 18. The number 18 has special meaning in Judaism and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.
The title Catch-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but because of the release of the 1960 movie Ocean's Eleven, this was also rejected.Catch-17 was rejected so as not to be confused with the World War II film Stalag 17, as was Catch-14, apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a "funny number" Eventually the title came to beCatch-22, which, like 11, has a duplicated digit, with the 2 also referring to a number of déjà vu-like events common in the novel."