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22340932 No.22340932 [Reply] [Original]

did you like 1984? or are there better books about authoritarian societies?

>> No.22340987
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>>22340932
A decade from now academics will still be debating who got it right: Orwell or Huxley. Waldunchads will sit in the back of the lecture halls with a slight smirk on their face. They're still debating this...even after all these years? Heh. They'll get up and move slowly to the door.

As a cool wind blows through the campus they'll put their earbuds in and adjust their collar. Slyly, they'll drop a copy of L'Academie onto the ground. It's not rubbish--but it will surely be picked up...eventually.

>> No.22341227

Book equivalent of a Stephen King movie. It has good ideas but basically all the other famous dystopian books are better as books.

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>>22341227
Provide examples.

>> No.22341244

>>22341233
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Clockwork Orange
Animal Farm

>> No.22341250

>>22341227
Nice 110 IQ take you got there. 1984 BAD! TOO FAMOUS!
>>22340932
Great book, Orwell is an extremely underrated stylist.

>> No.22341256

>>22340932
>better
hg wells, shape of things to come. I like to say that BNW is a footnote before the society of polymaths talks the dictatorship of the air into going into exile, and then the real utopian dictatorship begins.

however you look at it, it is the future as nothing will change at all without most or all of the elements in SOTC occurring. attempting to persist, for instance, without educating the population to be very smart is futile.

reminded me, I meant to write about this. nobody but me seems to remember the thing at all lol

>> No.22341259

>>22341244
animal farm is from the same author, not much better

>> No.22341267

This may be the first time I will say this,
but there was too much sex :/

>> No.22341282

>>22340932
I like that the government was leftist.

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>>22341267
the sex was a good way to portray the human freedom that ingsoc dispised and banned

>> No.22341875

>>22340932
Anon it's time to stop posting this mi5 psy ops agent

>> No.22342010

>>22341875
b-b-b-but the evil dictatoes we wage (illegal war and kill millions of civilians in the process) against are literally hitlers! 1984 is the only form of oppression! and it's gubment! it's not never not never commercial interests and late night comedy, that can't be oppression or propaganda! nub nub nib nob no way

>> No.22342055

>>22340932
i thought it was ok until i realized newspeak is real

>> No.22342116

>>22342055
lol, too true
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