/lit/ - Literature

Who is Big Brother in present world?

>>17433986
the first quarter of the book is a-ok, but the other three are just 1984 with erectile disfunction

Wow, what a great instruction manual. More recs on how to create my very own totalitarian government?

>just read Orwells 1984
>realistically shows the tyranny of politicians
>I found it in the "Fiction" section of my local library
>it definitely needs to be move to "Non-fiction"

I got an open response essay tomorrow and I haven't read the book it's over, '1984' by George Orwell.

help

I've just finished Animal Farm and 1984.

I have to say that both of these books were pretty damn good. Are there any other books that are similar and nearly as good or better?

I see A Clockwork Orange and Fahrenheit get recommended alot on Amazon along with these two books.

Why do people think we're getting closer to a place like Brave New World or 1984?

Is society just really shitty overall?

I know 1984 is essentially babies' first high-school political dystopian, but it still delivers decent messages and covers pretty decent topics, especially on the point of the degradation in the English language itself: NewSpeak.

The popularization of the book itself has gotten to the point that it doesn't take someone having to have read it, much less understand it's points to have heard about it and some of the basic concepts covered. This also enables them to easily get those concepts entirely wrong.

For some reason the use of some NewSpeak words, despite the book being a literal warning not to, as somehow managed to catch on, even to those that haven't read the book.
ThoughtCrime, DoubleThink, and for some fucking odd instances even BellyFeel seem to have memetically caught on to casual usage in a number of instances.
I often hear DoubleThink being used as a replacement for the word hypocrisy so often that it's quite obvious that it's no longer just a casual reference to the book, and that people are literally legitimately using one of that Englishman's worst nightmares because he even made the concept of it known.

We're even seeing the prevalence of these kind of utterances outside of explicit mentions.
Most noticeable is the recent misnomer of "#" becoming "Hashtag" despite the sheer leaps of illogic and ignorance that it takes to even come to that conclusion.

Are these trends actually happening? And are they an actual threat to the English language and possibly it's literature as a whole?

I do know the the German language often utilized compound words as idioms with implicit meanings to things the compound word does not literally describe, but that's probably not exactly a shining example either as Modern German could probably be determined as the most culturally castrated country currently on Earth, short of Sweden.