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Comment author: Desrtopa 27 May 2013 05:22:49PM 5 points [-]

Like, Orwell showed how Oceania would be stable in perpetuity not how every dictatorship would.

Well, to be more precise, Orwell imagined how Oceania might be stable in perpetuity. That doesn't mean his imagination was an accurate representation of a society that could really exist.

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