George Orwell's "1984" is not a prophecy, as it is trivially regarded, but a satire of totalitarianism. Journalist, writer, pundit and TV host Pierluigi Battista, currently the owner of the "Emergency Exit" column for the Huffington Post newspaper, analyzes one of the most misunderstood of the seminal works in twentieth-century culture and literature, so as to restore the novel to its original meaning.