This book is doubleplusgood. I'm a very politically minded person, and a total cynic, so this book speaks to my soul on so many levels.
In a world of oppressive dictators, mind-warping media, and 'alternative facts,' Orwell's bleak future has never looked more relatable. It's almost scary how easy it is to compare our real world with the nightmarish one Orwell created.

A simple review can't fully capture the harsh, significant truth behind this book, so here are a selection of the most poignant passages which I find applicable to today's modern world.

"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."

"In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it."

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"

"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."

"The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed. For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?"

"The terrible thing the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world."

"And if the facts say otherwise then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continuously rewritten."

"If there is hope, it lies in the proles."

The proles, the general working-class public, are the only ones who can fix the mess the world has become, in both this book and in the real world, we just need to wake up and rub the lies from our eyes and see the truth. We believe what we're told to believe, we live how we're told to live. In the age of social media, it's never been easier for them the feed us 'fake news.'

This is an important book. Utterly relevant, utterly true; it's a book that needs to be read by all honest, hard working proles.