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Posted: 9/21/2019 11:59:08 AM EDT
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It's no longer a warning. It's a documentary. I had my daughter read Animal Farm before 1984 but your point stands. Smart devices rather than telescreens are spying on us. Doublethink is real. Newspeak is real. Thought crime is now heavily suppressed, sometimes violently. Marriage rates are plummeting. The nuclear family is being replaced by big daddy gov. Etc. |
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Posted: 9/21/2019 12:02:07 PM EDT
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No one has time for the 5 or 10 or 15 minutes hate claimed so far in this thread.
Two minutes. Two minutes hate. |
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Posted: 9/21/2019 12:04:45 PM EDT
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...Obviously, no one would want to live in the world 1984 describes.... The title was a transposition of the year in which it was published, i.e. 1948. Orwell was only mildly paranoid. The book was intended as a simple extrapolation of how things already were in the UK in the late 1940s. |
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Posted: 9/21/2019 12:06:22 PM EDT
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1984 and Animal Farm are cautionary tales, not how to manuals.
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Posted: 9/21/2019 12:09:12 PM EDT
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Once fluent in newspeak you can fit into the system better. It's description of the way manipulated words and news control the population is spot on. That alone is reason enough to read it. |
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Posted: 9/21/2019 1:25:53 PM EDT
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"We have always been at war with (insert any contry here).
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Posted: 9/21/2019 1:31:42 PM EDT
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I have read it. My 14 year old son is reading it. I told my friend everyone should read it, and he asked why. Obviously, no one would want to live in the world 1984 describes. And, obviously, no one wants to live under a totalitarian regime. I still think everyone should read it, but have difficulty articulating why. ETA: It helps people to imagine what it is like to live in an absence of freedom. |
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