1984 is not a text book

When published in 1946 it was as a novel. A work giving the reader a fiction to consider. A dystopian warning of what would have been had the freshly vanquished threat of totalitarianism not been extinguished and could yet be if it was to return.

It was not intended as a text book.

But looking at the current narrative of the geopolitical and financial crisis we now sit within as is relentlessly projected by politicians and mainstream media it seems to have moved genre. Is it now possible that the text has been moved from the shelves of fiction to a position as a text book for social and political double speak? Can it be suggested that Insoc has entered the political and media mainstream narrative?

Do the double speak slogans of progression; "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," and "Ignorance is Strength." resonate within today's actualities?

Maybe this is too conspiratorial and paranoid. But I would suggest least one quote from the Ministry of Truth does have resonance in the last 100 days of activity within our political leaderships and economic woes:

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

If accepted at face value the current narrative of the cause of the spiralling inflation and rising interest rates that are burdened upon the British public and economy are the result of the 44 day exposure to “Trussonomics”. A suicidal move to uncosted growth based in the idea that fiscal and money policy can be separated to create a new environment and narrative in which business could flourish, growth return and as a consequence of the rich and able being empowered to produce wealth (become richer) the poor and unable would benefit – a move that removed at a stroke the kings cloths of economic competence and triggered a major crises.

Really?

Was it Trussonomics that stacked twelve zeros behind a two? Was inflation the sole result of 44 days of this derided master plan? Was it the sole cause of increasing central bank interest rates? Did it make the United Kingdom a failed State whose economic indicators of inflation, interest rates and debt to GDP ratio are far worse than those of other G20 world economies?

Consider this quote taken from an IMF Group of Twenty Surveillance Note published in July of this year “Meanwhile, financial markets are tightening, and volatility has heightened….”. This is one of many reference sources to the true causations of what is a worldwide impairment. One that existed and was building force long before Truss appeared on the stage.

The Truss experiment clearly was poorly presented and executed, ran against the flow of economic thinking and as such was doomed from the start; but it was not the root cause of all ills.

With or without Truss the next move on the economic chess board was zugzwang.

Is it nearer the truth that Truss was god sent to those who had steered the ship of economic policy via a decade of money printing & depressed interest rates into a building storm of inflationary pressures and to the Symplegades of economic reality which, fiat or the gods, decreed clash closed on the Truss vessel rather than their own?

Double Speak rules the day and we are standing witness as Sunak and his crew, who controlled the past and gave us this future and, thanks to the failure of Truss, now again control the present and are actively rewriting the past .

Could you have predicted this or made up the scenario?

Orwell did?