Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy"
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
FWIW, the biggest sci-fi in 1984 wasn’t big brother or the proto-internet. It was a predictive model of human behavior that could perfectly predict individual behavior.
That, and a competent tyrannical regime.
(My personal headcannon is that “Airstrip one” or whatever they called Britain is the North Korea of its world, and everyone else just ignores them.)