Don't forget that this book was written in 1948. It's an astonishingly prescient book.
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That particular quotation seems prescient, but there's plenty in the book that is nothing like what happens today, at least in a literal interpretation.
You mean like the parts here the government rewrites history using a technology that is as similar to the Paladium as you can get with paper?
Or how the governors are a different class that suport each other even on enemy states, thus the wars are nothing but a fabrication to keep the population under control?
Or the parts where they control how the population perceive discidents, by controlling the press?
Or maybe you mean the way how they so perfectly control the population that they must create the dissidents first at the Mini Love, before they turn the population against them. Yeah, reality isn't that way... Yet.
War is peace?
Ignorance is strength?
Freedom is slavery?
And my favourite, in Big Brother Iron (a 1984 "sequel" by Charlie Stross):
Trust the Computer
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to...
I think interpreting Orwell's books literally seems misguided. Animal Farm wasn't _REALLY_ about farm animals...was it.
I think 1984 is less allegory than Animal Farm though?