The reason why George Orwell is quoted so often these days is because two of his works, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, are effectively prophecies of the demented post-modern era in which we live.
Identity politics, the ugly US import that separates everyone into tribes competing for victim status, was surely anticipated in Animal Farm by the observation that “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others”. Likewise, Nineteen Eighty-Four gave the world the concept of Big Brother, which is now more or less a reality, as well as doublethink, and newspeak. In modern Britain there are examples of these everywhere.
