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I would argue that Orwell had been discredited by our postmodern sensibilities. He envisioned a top-down repression where the government controls by force and paranoia. It's quite the opposite. The population is beholden to it's pleasures, not controlled by threat of pain.
No reason to fight or die, or read, or believe. Nothing is true, nothing is false... you can do whatever you want to do, but why not just relax on the couch and watch scripted beautiful people do it instead? Just take your soma and let us entertain you till you stop breathing.
For a more insightful picture into where we've been and where we are going, I recommend Alduous Huxley's Brave New World. Orwell put together some great works of fiction, but his vision of the future has given way to something different but no less troubling.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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