![]() ![]() Stories of science-fictional wastelands, malevolent totalitarian governments and vengeful AI that warn us of what we might become. These are cautionary tales for dangerous times. We lapped up The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror and Blade Runner 2049 with gleeful horror. Our concern shot Orwell’s novel to the top of Amazon’s chart. We took to the streets - or rather Twitter - crying, ‘It’s just like 1984!’ Dystopia had made a comeback. When the West’s Days of Reckoning came in 2016, we naturally turned to George Orwell, master of modern dystopia, to make sense of Trump, Brexit and the return of the far-right in Europe. ![]()
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