Quote from: RE on Sep 03, 2026, 06:55 PMQuote from: TDoS on Sep 03, 2026, 01:35 PMThe three fictional superstates of the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four are Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia.
Very thinly disguised fictionalization.
Eurasia = Europe + Russia
East Asia = China + Japan, Korea etc + Australia/NZ
Oceania = N & S Amerika
Orwell ignored Africa. Black folks didn't count.
RE
So what. This is like required classic reading in my high school, and I only went to a LITTLE private boys high school versus those in the big city. K-Dog understood it right quick, and he might have gone to a 1 room school house in rural Minnesota or Wisconsin or something!