What the... it went from the Matrix to George Orwell... I was discussing with my son about the move The Matrix and about red pilling.  He tells me the writers took the concept from Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell.  So I look that up,.  Look at that, Hollywood made it into a movie 2017.  Ghost in the Shell was created by Masamune Shirow  in 1989 who had always wanted to give his manga that title in homage to Arthur Koestler who wrote The Ghost in the Machine.  Fine, look up Arthur Koestler, long bio, he wrote many books which seems very relevant to all the political minds games of today but I haven't had the chance to read them yet.  But in 1942 he was assigned to the  Ministry of Information as a  scriptwriter for propaganda broadcasts and film.  In 1949 he swore the oath of allegiance to the British Crown.  1967 he published,  The Ghost in the Machine.(the basis of the Matrix?)  1972  was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire.  He remain very active and influential in his writings  till his suicide pact with his wife.  Yes they died together, he 77 and she was 56 in good health. But In 1945, over the next three years he became close friends with George Orwell.  Orwell published Animal farm 1945,   Published 1984 in 1949  before dying in 1950 at age 46.  Im not sure what I've stumbled into but I've often wondered where Orwell got his ideas from...