Holy crap, I never read that passage from Numbers before. Not only does it recommend compulsory abortion, it’s an outright endorsement of spells and curses to achieve a desired medical result. Point any and all Christians in the direction of this passage the next time they decide to mock voodoo.

So perfect that you specifically mention people waving R

I doubt Oceania is analogous to North Korea. In both the book and the film we witness a large number of Eastasian prisoners of war being paraded in public before their execution, and they are clearly depicted as possessing typical Asian (Orwell refers to them as “Mongoloid”) physical features. Assuming that Airstrip…