/lit/ - Literature

But what if a prole revolution takes place?

>1984/Orwellian dystopia is about surveillance

Why?
Why do people always come up with this shit?

It's not like Newspeak is less of an issue nowadays.
I always wonder whether people who quote 1984 for its surveillance aspects have actually read the book.

>>4308224
You do know that PKD actually had a strong resentment against drug consumption in his later years, right?

He was well aware of the harmful effects and didn't see them as some kind of fair tradeoff for the blunt illusion of creativity some people who are still stuck in their college agenda seem to be tricked by.

Not at all since I balance it out by visiting retarded threads like these.

>>4247483
>Apart from liberals spouting feels, I've yet to see a single bad trait to it.

Have you even read the book?
Do you even know what the goal of the party is?

You know... the stuff about stopping history and holding power solely by inflicting pain on the weaker.

And actually that is fucking all to it. No ideology, no materialistic wealth - there is NO fucking positive at all - it's sheer lust for power in its most primitive form, catapulting humanity back into the middle ages from a scientific standpoint and probably even further from a humanitarian standpoint.

Which is understandable since the party isn't even for the good of humanity. O'Brien himself says that.