George Orwell’s 1984 imagines a near-future dystopia in which all human activity is surveilled and most of it is controlled. Last week, the American government came under sudden, sustained scrutiny after several of its top-secret surveillance programs were revealed to the public. Today, 1984‘s sales are up 127 percent on Amazon, while a two-fer of 1984 and Animal Farm is up 314 percent.

Coincidence?

BRB, getting our tinfoil hats fitted.