The Lawn Sign That Outlived Civilization

And how it sparked a thousand-year holy war

Photo taken by auhtor

When Ben bought a cardboard lawn sign on Amazon prior to the 2020 election, he could hardly have anticipated the ride it would go on. It read “Make Orwell Fiction Again,” and it was bought in the naive hope that less dystopian days would come again soon. Little did Ben know that the normalcy he craved wouldn’t return — not by 2024, …