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It's about a dystopian near-future where the government monitors all actions of the population through cameras and microphones embedded in "screens." All relationships are coordinated by the government and romance is outlawed because of the instability it can create in society. Foreign wars are engineered and history is constantly re-written to fit the narrative of the government. ie) Chocolate output is down 50%, but the government will instruct the news to report that it is down 60%, then announce a 10% increase two weeks later. Everyone is very pleased about the 'increase.' If it's easier for you, you can watch the motion picture, the one released in 1984 is quite faithful to the book. Perhaps that will pique your interest. He who controls the present controls the past, he who controls the past controls the future. It's built upon the work of Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We", which was smuggled out of the USSR. I recommend that book as well. In both you will find disturbing parallels to how the modern propaganda machine works. The Iraq war lie, the perpetual "war on terrorism", etc. Instead of spending your time moderating the vomitous output of high-schoolers, I would recommend you try to take in some broader knowledge that passes through skilled editors. Unfortunately that limits you to the 20th century and before, since all modern output is "stream of consciousness" social media garbage, as writing became a completely unprofitable enterprise. There is no fact-checking or quality-control anymore, which makes reading works from this golden age all the more important.