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1984

>> No.541100

wtf, it's 2010 bro

>> No.541101

sage

>> No.541107
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541107

I see a troll lurking the background of this thread...

>> No.541104

BUMP~

>> No.541110

no

>> No.541113

>>541110
cool sage, bro
protip: it goes in the email field

>> No.541114

This book is about problems in world politics just after World War II. Any story involving human beings is going to have parallels in other places where people are doing shit, but it doesn't have a lot of relevance today.

>> No.541117

BUMP

>> No.541119

the past is controlled by the present

>> No.541120

>>541114
>but it doesn't have a lot of relevance today.
Have you ever been to England?

>> No.541130

>>541120

Ah, yes. England. Where they routinely install cameras in your home against your will and torture and murder political dissidents as a matter of course.

>> No.541129

FICTION LICKS BUTTHOLES

>> No.541125

>>541114
Every nation is not like Europe/America.

>> No.541133

>>541120

Also, they continuously destroy evidence of politically inconvenient facts. Yes. England.

>> No.541136

>>541125

Oh, well never mind then!

>> No.541141

>>541113
Protip: it only works in /b/

>> No.541150

bump

>> No.541189

>>541114
Right on comrade!

>> No.541198

post in the ginsberg thread nao!!!

>> No.541438

Fuck 1984, poorly written, dull as dishwater characters Overrated.

>> No.541441

>>541098
Hey, personally, that's my favorite cover.

>> No.541453

HO YAY

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hooray, 1984 cover art

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541499

ten's probably enough

>> No.541517

>>541499
no.
moar

>> No.541533

saying this book doesnt have relevance today means you never read this book.

>> No.541544

I'm sorry, but it is still one of my favorite books.
Maybe my favorite.

>> No.541555

>>541544
Possibly my favourite as well.

>> No.543609

this + v for vendetta = epic win

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>> No.543835

>>541555


Definitely my favourite.

>> No.543841

>It's my favorite book.

While I'm not about to say that 1984 is at all bad, I find that I'm more partial to Brave New World.

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>> No.543872

>>543819
I know that it's often used as a way of masking indecision, but in this case I really think it's a bit of both.

What matters is censored, ignored by media or presented in a very limited way and what is trivial is made to seem more important than it is. Orwell's truncheon is reserved for those who go snooping around the wrong places, Huxley's drugs are for the obedient.

Reward and punish - it's the essence of good parenthood.

>> No.543891

>>543872

I think that the difference between Orwellian and Huxlean dystopias is more of a spectrum. Lacking one's vices, society will veer towards the others.

The solution is to somehow eliminate both socialism and capitalism.