Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. It can never permit either the truthful recording of facts or the emotional sincerity that literary creation demands.**
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Orwell's Review of The Freedom of the Streets by Jack Common, June 1938, pp. 335-6 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell
**Published in Polemic (January 1946) (Bold emphasis added.)
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), ... known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. ... His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. ... As a writer, Orwell ... is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). ... In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"....
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Two Minutes Hate", "Room 101", "memory hole", "Newspeak", "doublethink", "proles", "unperson", and "thoughtcrime",... as well as providing direct inspiration for the neologism "groupthink". | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell