/lit/ - Literature

Was Obrien right?

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economics: the deficit myth
government: who killed the constitution
pop-culture: the naked communist
game theory:What Are The Odds?: Chance In Everyday Life

is there a single book that explains that tribalism always defeats non-tribalism? and we've proven inconclusively that freedom and free market capitalism work, but because tribalism is so effective, have killed freedom and capitalism through a thousand paper-cuts, where the average american belongs to 20 special interest groups. Where racial tribalism has proven the most innate, and effective strategy, and are now lost in a dozen cold wars to divide and conquer people along political lines. And we've been told lies after lies where the only thing that matters is the narrative, and what history professors and elites say is the truth, when we're seeing with our own eyes that it's all bullshit?

I can't help but read classic literature, and read HG Wells point out that jews were acting jewey even back in 1901. And read Benjamin Franklin and realize indians were always drunks, and read about the mayflower and see how Sommerset's first words were "do you have beer?" and read Malcolm X's autobiography and hear it sound like a contemporary BLM speech blaming everyone but blacks. Or read Ayn Rand perfectly describe in the 60's Marxists hypocrisy and tactics. And then read the Unibomber's manifesto perfectly describe in the 90's Marxists hypocrisy and tactics. and then Read Jean-Francois Rebel write in the 2000's and perfectly describe Marxist hypocrisy and tactics. I can't help but read fucking Shakespeare and see how the taming of the shrew perfectly describes how submissive whore's are today. Or Jane Austin perfectly describe my wife's thoughts. Or read Dostoyevsky write in the 1860's about young girls who would dye their hair, wear colored glasses and call themselves nihilists and think of modern art hoes.

And after reading about the crusades, learn that they were justified. and after reading about vietnam, learn that we actually did win, and after reading about slavery, learn that blacks and indians, and muslims enslaved a lot of fucking people. Basically, the more non-fiction books I read, the more I realize the post-modernists "critical-theorists" are full of shit. and the more I read classic literature, the more I realize human nature is pretty set in stone: women have always been like that. And Jews have always been jews.

What a yawn inducing read. Not thought provoking in the slightest if you're already above 80 IQ.

Whats a longer and updated version of this? Not the one written by that mediocre Japanese.

Why are people acting like fighting corona compares to the content of this book?

Is there a website which goes all autistic on description of the books?
Such as which font it uses, whats the font size, margin size, book dimensions?

Is 1984 worth reading, or is it a meme high school book? Obviously given the renewed interest due to the rise in public censorship

Part of the reason 1984 is so frightening to certain people is not just the (definitionally) Orwellian surveillance state, but the fact that the surveillance state is overwhelmingly focused on Outer Party. If the Inner Party is the top 2%, and Proles are the bottom 85%, then Outer Party represents the 85th to 98th percentile of political talent in Oceania.
The bottom 85% of people, Proles, who compose, let's be clear, more than a supermajority of the society, live a life, seemingly, of bread and circuses, with little if anything to fear from the thought police, and the Oceanian government. Even in Orwell's most extreme possible conception, what would literally be the archetypical model of a Totalitarian State for the English speaking world, Proles (And Animals) Are Free.
Let's imagine that the Oceanian political hierarchy roughly lines up with IQ distributions. This would mean that Proles are anyone with an IQ below 115, and Inner Party are anyone with an IQ above 130.
That 115-130 IQ range? Those people who are Smart But Not Genius? Orwell writes a book in which they, and they alone, bear the full brunt of socialistic terror. They, who form the core of the managerial class. They, who "by rights" ought to be the ones Making Socialism Work. They, who should be collecting the bribes and doling out favors in the patronage networks and lecturing their bumpkin peers on socialist praxis. They, who make up the majority of the readership of his book. They, Orwell describes, are going to be the ones who have the greatest revolutionary potential, and it is on their face that the boot will repeatedly stamp forever.
1984 is the Day of the Rope for MidWits.
It's the Day of the Telescreen.

This was supposed to be a WARNING, not an INSTRUCTION MANUAL!

Alright /lit/

Give me three reasons to read George Orwell's 1984.

Never got around to it but now I have a copy someone gifted me.

>inb4 HOW HAVE YOU NOT READ IT

mark my words. they will ban this and call it antisemitic or a book for white supremacists, it just gives too much of what they're doing.

Not very subtle, is it?

I don't get it. Did he [spoiler\] turn himself in?[spoiler\] That sudden transition throws me off.

I was always confused why everyone seems to think that the segment of 1984 where you read Goldstein's book (part 2, chapter 9), is considered the worst and most dull part of the novel. In my opinion its actually the best part of the whole novel, because it sort of tells you everything about how the society is run and why. Why does everyone hate this part? The worldbuilding in it is exquisite, I like how it feels like you are reading something from someone who knows everything

Why was he against working out?

>1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit, Lord of the Flies, Handmaid's Tale

Why is the "dystopian" genre the first thing that comes to the redditor's mind when he thinks of literary fiction?

Was I supposed to dislike the society portrayed in this book? Winston was a fucking pussy and deserved what he got. The system described in the book seems like a good alternative to the "system" that we currently have.

This is Canada

>yeah george orwell is pretty much my favorite author, 1984 is a classic for a reason
who do you imagine?

bout to start this. what am I in for?

Did Winston know he was going to get caught?

Why is this book universally praised by plebs?

Why is this no-plot pontificating mess universally acclaimed? It has no plot. It's a ripoff of 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Its characters are bland and forgettable. The lady goes from normal to sex doll-tier in less than 30 pages. There are long passages full of exposition and the author's own opinions about political ideas. Orwell should've written an essay and spared us of this shit.