-7DeadlyFetishes
1984 was actually inspired by that time someone corrected Orwell on their pronouns.
Yeah a Cossack in the Spanish republican army said their pronouns were kit/bun and Orwell threw his hands in the air and proudly exclaimed “GEUSS IM RACIST NOW”
Later he’d go on a comedy tour with British Central Intelligence talking about how the rambunctious youth are too offended today when it comes to funny nicknames for Asian and African people.
-7DeadlyFetishes
lmao this is very close to what actually inspired bradbury's fahrenheit 451
lol what happened?
I read a version of it in like 2002 and in the afterward he was talking about how moulin rouge was proof Fahrenheit 451 was already happening or some shit because the shot lengths are short and there's a lot of cuts lol. Bruh what the fuck are you talking about.
Like the book is actually kinda chilling, but then he's like actually now that i'm a boomer, it's about how mass media bad
In a 1956 radio interview,[6] Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature.
i think you should read the coda again
In the coda, Bradbury is angry about what he describes as censorship, but there are a lot of different complaints all jostled together under that one big umbrella. There’s anger at the editors of Ballantine Books, who removed the words “damn” and “hell” from their edition of Fahrenheit 451. There’s anger at anthology editors who bowdlerized great authors when putting together a compilation of the classics for school readers. But most of his anger is aimed at the threat he believes to be posed by minorities.
He is angry at a “solemn young Vassar lady” who asked whether he might write more female characters. He is angry at other readers who disapprove of how he wrote “the blacks” in one of his stories. He is angry at “the Irish,” “the Chicano intellectuals,” at “every minority” that has some perspective on his stories at variance with his. In his own words, every last one of them “feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse…. Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever.”
In the coda, most of Bradbury’s anger is aimed at the threat he believes to be posed by minorities.
jesus fuck, i definitely didn't pick up on that when i was reading that however long ago
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"Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico…. All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean.”
why the fuck are we giving this to children to read
tbh I kind of agree with him on that
the chad Chinese homogenizer vs the virgin European highland west luxembourgish moldovakian meme ethnicity
A rapist, a snitch, a plagiarist, and a racist walk into a bar.
The bartender asks “How’s the new book coming Mr. Orwell?”
Do read more about this excellent author.
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Chuds: "Well, when I heard he was a socialist, I stopped liking him, but now..."
This is literally horseshoe theory
-7DeadlyFetishes
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smh didn't even include Orwell's attempted rape, way less known than these
I mean if you read 1984 I think you can figure out that Orwell wadsnt very good with sexual stuff. Like "this heroic character who is the brave resistance wants to rape a woman, but he's a hero" is a but isus
FYI: not defending Orwell but like don’t be bent over backwards and write an essay about how cringe he was when someone quotes him he’s fucking dead lol
-7DeadlyFetishes
because dead people, famously, have no impact on future generations in terms of how they or their work are percieved
I mean, pointing out that Orwell was a scumbag in his personal life doesn’t really do anything to disprove what his writings say.
Marx was more than a bit of a prick but that’s no reason to burn your copy of Das Kapital.
the difference there is that das kapital isn't complete bullshit
Yes but you can attack Orwell’s work on their BS directly, which is a more solid argument than going “well the author was a scumbag”.
It's not even if you leave the politics aside it's incredibly dull
What about a light dunking on people who think 1984 is soooooo insightful? They need to be dunked on, comrade! They're begging for it!
Hey look, it’s me!
Also read Asimov’s review of 1984. It’s hilarious and he shits all over Orwell.
ok, so still less problematic than your average politician today.
