leave it a mystery if you are a left winger or a right winger or even a trot yourself.
Orwell was objectively trash read this where Issac Asimov destroys him
leave it a mystery if you are a left winger or a right winger or even a trot yourself.
Orwell was objectively trash read this where Issac Asimov destroys him
King shit
I would just complain that they don't bother with proper sex ed nor do they give content warnings before teaching 1984, so they always end up exposing teens to rape and misogyny out of nowhere. I need to spread the "Fahrenheit 451 is the superior dystopic book" agenda
Edit: oh, just a new comment by gay regarding the sex pest behaviour Orwell exhibited by writing 1984. Normal stuff folks, keep moving
F451 is good. I personally love Brave New World and it relates to modern society wayyyyyyy more that 1984. Huxley is the King of Dystopian SciFi and also on his deathbed he asked to wife to give him acid so he could die while tripping balls. Absolute legend.
Friendship ended with Fahrenheit 451, now Brave New World is my best friend
I recently read Brave New World, so much better
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I would say look up the content warnings (Winston, protagonist, bad) and read it. Reading a book you don't like is not gonna kill you, you're just gonna waste some of your time. You can easily find an ebook version for free online and the audiobook has been on YouTube for a few years now
The only good part about 1984 is Goldstein explaining how every war machine made is food out of the mouths of the poor. If people should get anything out of that book, it is becoming rabidly anti-war/military
As much as I hate 1984, I still believe the appendix is the only good part of the book. I guess "language is kind of an effective control tool" is a basic take, but when I read it in high school I was fascinated by how good those few pages were at building the 1984 world.
In my defense, I had never read something like that before ("oh, this is fiction pretending to be non-fiction... is that legal??!1!") because I was 15 (also I was so creeped out by Winston, the story is better without him)
Oh this one was also a good take from the book.
George Carlin has a great bit about how words have changed Shell Shocked
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I know what libs take from it. They recognize Goldstein stands for Trotsky so they become a "Trotsky was Lenin's true heir" type of person and then denounce the rest of the USSR's history as a stalinist famine gulag. They do not reflect on American imperialism, they already have their "woke" talking point.
They can’t process it cause they have smooth brains
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Not wasting my breath defending any man. But Fahrenheit is still a book that is more appropriate to teach teenagers due to the lack of rape and abuse fantasy scenes and misogyny in the text. Also it's just better. Perhaps I'm just biased because I can read an anti-capitalist message on Fahrenheit more easily than 1984 and... no creep main character
Orwell attempted to rape his childhood friend Jacintha Buddicom (cw: rape apologia) when he was 18
Well that just makes everything worse. "Hello teens, you wanna read a rape fantasy written by an aspiring rapist? You're gonna love 1984. The misogyny included in the text has no relevance so we'll just ignore it and focus on Winston's blue balls"