All across the country, people felt it was the wrong thing. All across the country, people felt it was the right thing. All across the country, people felt they'd really lost. All across the country, people felt they'd really won. All across the country, people felt they'd done the right thing and other people had done the wrong thing. All across the country, people looked up Google: what is EU? All across the country, people looked up Google: move to Scotland. All across the country, people looked up Google: Irish Passport Applications. All across the country, people called each other cunts. All across the country, people felt unsafe. All across the country, people were laughing their heads off. All across the country, people felt legitimised. All across the country, people felt bereaved and shocked. All across the country, people felt righteous. All across the country, people felt sick. All across the country, people felt history at their shoulder. All across the country, people felt history meant nothing. All across the country, people felt like they counted for nothing. All across the country, people had pinned their hopes on it. All across the country, people waved flags in the rain. All across the country, people drew swastika graffiti. All across the country, people threatened other people. All across the country, people told people to leave. All across the country, the media was insane. All across the country, politicians lied. All across the country, politicians fell apart. All across the country, politicians vanished.. Ali Smith
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George Orwell is a british author who wrote this book "1984". Orwell was referring to the news parts of the book and how it could be manipulated by their own people. The news parts of the book were talking about how many people hate everything that is happening or that they want to happen. All these things are called "newsworthiness".

He was trying to point out that this news is just made up and nothing really happened and no one really cared. It can be very easy to manipulate people's opinions and thoughts and feelings by telling something like: "Everyone is talking about this, so everyone should care" or "You will miss out on something if you don't pay attention".

Source: Autumn

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