So much of "1984" is materializing in American in the 2020s. In "1984" Orwell used the term "heretical" for spoken or written words that the authoritarian government did not want people to use. Today, we call it "misinformation". The use and purpose of "misinformation" is the same though.
Orwell wrote “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Is this not applicable today? The left is tearing down statues, re-writing history and we are letting them even though we know it is wrong. 100 years from now people will not realize what they are being taught is actually revised.
How about “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Is the left's hypocrisy not this statement? For example, Government persecuting people for their politics is wrong, unless they are persecuting my political opponents.
How long before we are told this is true, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”?