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The only rebellion shown in the book is Goldstein's manifesto and even that turns out to be a lie. The State invented Goldstein's rebellion to weed out Thought criminals. And Winston fell for it.
Yep, it does a great job of just being doomer and fun to engage with on the basis of story, but not applicable to reality.
The point (which I guess I needed to point out) is that this isn't a work of fiction, anymore. Government has been granted unprecedented power to conduct surveillance on innocent people with no warrants or accountability. Companies carry out data harvesting and location tracking in nearly every consumer product connected to the Internet. Microsoft has literally incorporated spyware into Windows 11 (CoPilot / Recall). We are living in a real life surveillance state right NOW and our government and corporations are clearly fine with it. And that's where the "how-to" guide comes into it. That's the BAD THING. I really didn't think I needed to spell it out, but damn.
Yes, we already live in a dystopia, reading 1984 does not tell people how to escape that in any capacity nor does it suggest how to prevent it.