Winston envisioned himself as a rebelling against the government and believed the hope lay with the proletariats. This was an illusion for the proletariats could care less and if workers did, they could not do much anyway. When Winston and Julia had their affair, this too was an act of rebellion as they declared their love for one another. In the end, there was no revolutionary force, there was no Goldstein and Smith faced the full brunt of the state. The state broke Smith and in the end; he betrayed his Julia and all emotions of love removed from his innerself. In the end, Smith "truly loves" Big Brother.

Orwell died of TB in 1950 and died before his time. In the 1930's and 40's, Orwell was a voice in the wilderness similar Whitaker Chambers for both men understood the true nature of the enemy we faced but from different perspective. Chambers became a conservative and religious whereas Orwell stayed a socialist.

Christopher Hitchens notes that in Orwell times, "all 'cultivated' people loathed the USA, Which was regarded the vulgariser of England and Europe. " During the war, it became apparent that there was significant difference between the British and the Americans in the area of wealth. The average American soldier was middle class and for some Brits, the average American soldier was considered, "Overpaid, over sexed and over here." Orwell wrote, "it is difficult to go anywhere in London without having the feeling that Britain was now Occupied Territory."

Orwell, like many British intellectual and writers, had dual feeling with America. As Christopher Hitchens noted that Orwell "always took American literature seriously.. and he came t the conclusion that its success as a new literature had something to do with liberty." On the other hand, Orwell distrusted America's commercial and mercenary culture and its "imperial ambitions." Orwell had a blind spot about America. In one of life's great irony, Orwell could not obtain the needed antibiotic in England required for treating his TB for it was manufactured only in America. As Hitchens concluded, "the American subject was in every sense Orwell's opportunity."

9/11 is forcing some on the left including Christopher Hitchens to reexamine the need for America power as there are worst enemies than American crassness or "imperial design." Some members of the left are now realizing that but most, just like those in the 30's, do not.