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14251263 No.14251263 [Reply] [Original]

>1984 was supposed to be a warning - not a manual!

>> No.14251281

>>14251263
>Reading children's books as an adult

>> No.14251288
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>>14251263
>Animal farm was an attack on socialism

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>>14251263

1984 was fancifully describing conditions that had already been put in place both in wartime America and Soviet Russia. It wasn't peering into the future. Vast spy networks and state coordinated disinformation campaigns were already a thing of the past.

Our world, and its futures, are much darker and much stranger. That book has yet to be written.

>> No.14251321

>Sent from my Samsung SM-N920V using Tapatalk

>> No.14251333

>>14251263
Are you in Europe? As an American I personally feel that we are more comparable to Brave New World

>> No.14252165

>>14251263
>The Normalfag

>>14251288
>the "I am 12 and what is politics"

>>14251333
>the "I just discovered what books are but think I'm smarter than normalfag's because I know a dystopia novel other than 1984"

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>>14251263
LMAO I say that all the time!

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>>14251263
>>14251333
>Actually, I think Brave New World was a more accurate prediction of modern society than 1984

>> No.14252235

>>14252165
>the centrist

>> No.14252262

It's Fahrenheit 451 that was the most prescient.
>government-instituted mass consumerism and dumbing-down of thoughts
>screens on every available surface
>everyone wearing a radio in both ears all the time even while sleeping and interacting with other people
>nothing but vapid conversation and at the best, cheap ideas and cheap facts
>billboards along the highway are 100 feet long because of unrestricted speed limits + rocket cars
>entertainment parks centered on hedonism and destruction
>all this as a distraction from imminent destruction via nuclear war

>> No.14252292

>>14252262
so what do you do about it

>> No.14252300

>>14251333
lol

>> No.14252307

>Democrats are the real racists!

>> No.14252312

>1984 was supposed to be a warning

Little do they know 1984 was actually George Orwell's filthy BDSM fantasy jack off smut story.

>> No.14252913

>>14252262
Bradbury was certainly accurate in perceiving how much susceptibility to indoctrination is really cope, the wish to believe that authority better knows what it's doing, or that it could be sufficient even if it did: Much as history is biography written by the few, it has been and will continue to be chaotic, with long-term strife irremediable by any kind of enlightened management, or even lack of pretensions to it. We feel in our bones the pace of improvisation quicken, with how much nearer we are to catastrophe than from origins, and console ourselves with stories that have purpose only in their smaller frame.

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>>14252262
:)

>> No.14253074

>>14252990
>Enemies can open doors
ohno

>> No.14253103

>>14253074
In a real dystopian future they'd just like strap bombs to these things and have them run after criminals but eh

>> No.14253226

>>14252307
it's true