OK, I'll take a chance to risk embarrassing myself & use provisional faith.

From what I read of the 2 hidden-hand dialogues,(which I also understand was not quite who he said he was) it would seem that the world that we know is very much more like George Orwells(Eric Blair's) Nineteen eighty four than us proletariat can know. Can you elaborate how much this is the case? We(mainstream plebs) would obviously be the proletariat as described in the book.

I guess another question would be: if it is so, how did Orwell know so much? Or, Who did he know?