This listing is for two 1.25" buttons based on the novel 1984: "Big Brother is Watching You" and "Junior Anti-Sex League."

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. The superstate and its residents are ruled by a political regime euphemistically named English Socialism, shortened to "Ingsoc" in Newspeak, the government's invented language. The superstate is under the control of the privileged elite of the Inner Party, a party and government that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime", which is enforced by the "Thought Police".

Women in Airstrip One are encouraged to join the Junior Anti-Sex League and avoid sex and especially recreational sex (the Party intends to abolish the institution of the family, so all children will be the products of artificial insemination and grow up in public institutions); and everyone knows that at all times, Big Brother's eyes are upon them, either through cameras or through the Thought Police.

For a quick Halloween costume: denim jumpsuit, red sash or belt tight around your waist, these buttons. Try to carry about an "atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness," and see if you can't organize a Two-Minute Hate. Maybe a prop bottle of Victory gin?

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Pin back on each button. US penny for scale. Penny and ruler NOT included in price of button. 2 + 2 = 5.