If you just watch this video from the 6 minute to 9 minute mark, you will find a perfect description of the "woke"
generation.
They have been told they are "woke",,when they have actually been put to sleep...under a deep, hypnotic spell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEMlvpMY7yw
No, they have not been awakened (to use the proper term), but have had their minds stolen from them!
I am at The point where he is banging his floozy, hope it gets better...
What I found more interesting was who and what the author was and what caused his death. Not in the book btw...
Yes, TB took many people back then..I can just recall the times when I saw people dying from TB, perhaps much more often that we see them dying from Covid today.
Antibiotics, first penicillin..didn't come into use before about 1941, an deven then it was hard for civilians to come by, since most was being shipped to the battefronts..same as pain killers such as Novacaine.
I had quite a few stitches done without anesthetic..
Although, Orwell didn't die until 1950, perhaps by the time antibiotics became available for him, his TB was already too advanced.