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These books describe our contemporary world.

>> No.16958714

>>16958686
>They were supposed to be a warning, not a manual

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>>16958686
>owellerino

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>>16958686
This pic describes OPs contemporary life

>> No.16958750

>>16958714
>>16958720
>>16958730
Why does OP's statement anger you? It's just a plain fact.

>> No.16958765

>>16958750
Because he's being the fag who reiterates 50 year old cultural critiques as if it's cutting or fresh.

>> No.16958772

>>16958750
I'm not angered, it's just such a tired cliche that has been discussed to death. Redddit might want to go over it again.

>> No.16958775

>>16958686
There is not a single thing wrong with Ingsoc

>> No.16958777

>jesus christ people, 1984 was not a manual!
>edit: my first comment to get gold is about our dystopian society. Wow. Never change, reddit.

>> No.16958806

>>16958775
You have no liberty whatsoever and everything you're being told is a lie.

>> No.16958812

>>16958806
>You have no liberty whatsoever
Good
>everything you're being told is a lie
So... just like liberal democracies?

>> No.16958887

>>16958686
Funny, because they describe radically different worlds. I'm neither required to do (for some reason) painful calisthenics every morning, nor given delightful soma tablets to distract me from my frustrations. Shakespeare is still very easy to find and read, in fact it's still taught in schools. Seems like they resemble the current reality not significantly more than when they were written because the whole point of this shit genre is to criticize contemporary trends by charicaturing them and waiting for midwits to be astonished that there are any similarities at all.
Anyway fuck off. You're a hackneyed, hyperbolic faggot.

>> No.16958911

>>16958887
You're even worse than OP, sperg.

>> No.16958920

>>16958777
Checked how do I upvote this

>> No.16958938

>>16958686
Impossibru, I can't even legally sniff cocaine from a ghetto hooker's asshole

>> No.16958971

>>16958714
>>16958720
Based Minitrue employees

>> No.16959023

Reminder that /lit/ only hates these books because they are popular with the YA crowd.

>> No.16959026

>>16958920
updoots to the left my fren

>> No.16959030

Brave New World is so bad.

>> No.16959044

>>16959030
Why?

>> No.16959136
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orwell is hot garbage and huxley was a perennialist faggot
1984 is only good for its understanding of language, and brave new world's just not good

>> No.16959518

>>16958686
Terrible books, read We.

>> No.16959521

>>16958812
>So... just like liberal democracies?
No

>> No.16960060

>>16959023
I like these books (well, I like 1984). It's these threads that are absolute shit

>> No.16960064

>>16959044
Not him, but Huxley 's prose is shit and it's not a very good narrative either. At best it's an interesting thought exercise

>> No.16960073

>>16958686
yes and this exact thing hasn't been said a million times before OP

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>>16958686
On the topic of Brave New World, has anyone here read this?

>> No.16960126

>>16958686
the fact that you can make this post proves you wrong faggot

>> No.16960307

>>16960064
What if we are born and bred brainlets, hallucinating the shitty society around us. I don't get why people say this world is like Brave New World. It's not technologically advanced enough. Unless we were the brainlets with dulled perception.

>> No.16960386

>>16958777
This, so much this!

>> No.16960424

>>16960307
>I don't get why people say this world is like Brave New World
Society in brave new world is just our society taken to its most logical and extreme conclusion by following rationalism
Only difference is that since it was written nazis gave a bad rep to eugenics so now you have to wait for automation to take the place of the brainlets

>> No.16960429

>>16958686
lol no bitch is Eumeswil

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>>16960064
those are pseud reasons

>> No.16960531

>>16960119
Yes. A must read.

>> No.16960620

>>16960516
How? What's good about it if both the story and the writing are shit?

>> No.16961015

>>16960119
I put it on my list. Thx breh

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>>16958686
Both pale in comparison to the true dystopian novel. Only one smart enough to realize you don't need to go into the future to make a dystopian setting

>> No.16961909

>>16958686
they also described the world when they came out. none of it is really that impressive and it isn't a coincidence they both came from england.

>> No.16961935

>>16958686
they're opposite ends of a spectrum, how

>> No.16961954

i thought we lived in a phillip k dick universerse