George Orwell, 1903-1950

The tower of Babel.

Maria Didahou
3 min readMay 21, 2023

đź”´In 1949 George Orwell published a dystopian social science fiction novel, 1984.

And it was as if it was written and published some months ago.

Not difficult to understand why.

âš«Three years ago the Planet woke up one day and it was told to stop spinning.

🌏Something like a massive attack had taken place and we had to

  • stay home,
  • be scared(why not, terrified?),
  • wash our hands,
  • and of course watch the news,

IF we wanted to survive.

🌏This was called a pandemic.

Some people, like myself, called it A War.

đź”´A coup, a dictatorship which wanted us not to submit.

Submitting wouldn’t be enough.

The Regime wanted us to face submission as our second nature and accept it without questioning.

⚫FOR YOUR BENEFIT… ⚫ the Regime said…

đź”´This new reality was above logic, but logic was not counting anymore ;because the New Reality consisted of non-logical material.

đź”´Believing or not in the Scientists became the dividing line between life and death.

But who really were these scientists?

And life was defined the way we knew? Or it had been so perfectly redefined?

Death?

It was a threat? A bitter outcome of disobedience?

Or simply a manipulating tool to handle and orchestrate Terror, the new Weapon?

🤔Well,who am I to answer these questions?

Actually the Regime would gladly tell me: Who are YOU to ASK these questions???

đź”´Because eventually this has turned out to be the problem: Asking questions.

đź”´Trying to understand.

Refusing to accept.

Thinking.

Deciding for yourself.

All these are enemies of the Regime.

And as George Orwell wrote once :

War is peace.

âš«We must learn to live peacefully by accepting the new orders, obeying the new laws, showing condescension.

🌏Those who cultivate an attitude of detachment and insist on asking questions, are the dangerous ones.

They must be ostracised.

Banished.

They won’t fit anymore.

Different kind of Babel Towers.
Choose the one you like!

🔴If I don’t respond to a Number instead of a Name, if I don’t have a whole collection of various vaccinations registered, I won’t be able to exist.

If I don’t want to obey blindly elected puppet leaders, I won’t have any right to be called a citizen.

Becoming a number.

đź”´Truth, rights, illuminating questions will become twisted, as notions.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final most essential command."
George Orwell, 1984.

Words will mean something else and old dictionaries will be burnt at the stake.

đź”´New World.

New Language.

âš«The New Establishment wants you to be part of this Babel Construction that has already been founded.

They need workers.

They need laborers.

They need loyalists.

Future constructions, Babel cities.
Welcome everyone!!!

🔴The choice is yours. Even if you don’t believe it anymore, the choice is yours.

Do not hesitate to take a place in the world and stand up for it!

Think!
You think.
Do not let your avatar do it for you!

🌏🌍🌎Thank you for reading.

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Maria Didahou

Being a Greek and English Literature teacher and a writer of five (so far) novels, I feel privileged to express myself freewheelingly. A freewheeling adventure!