[orwelly]

1984? People throw that reference around that have never read the book.

What do a private company's payflow dark patterns have to do with mass surveillance by a totalitarian state? Everything slightly dystopian isn't "real 1984 shit."

[willis936]

Nice username. My comment triggered you hard enough to make another account? I suppose it's good cover for avoiding responsible posting.

To help you out since you won't help yourself: the end of 1984 shows how psychological torture brings hard, rational people to doublethink. "I will not pay for my tax return. I will pay for my tax return."

[orwelly]

I don't reuse usernames on sites with no privacy controls. I haven't seen someone desperate enough to use the "triggered" cliché the way you did on this site in a while. (Popular on reddit though!)

I asked you a question in earnest, which part of that was not "responsible?" You tried to answer, but we both know it wasn't good. You're stretching "doublethink" to include falling for their dark pattern? In the context of 1984 doublethink regards indoctrination. Further proof you've never read it.

[willis936]

If I were as interested in lying and as bad at it as you are I'd probably go out of my way for anonymity too.

[zingplex]

I think something by Kafka would be far more apt. It seems that 1984 has become a shorthand for anything vaguely dystopian.