• 6bicycles [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    You're too deep. It's a great book against a surveillance state for what it's worth.

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      It really, really is not a "great book" by any metric. It absolutely drips with Orwell's bitterness over his experiences in Catalonia. It has no value of its own whatsoever, it is only interesting as an insight into the depth of Orwell's hatred for communists.

      • 6bicycles [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's a great book against a surveillance state. C'mon man, I know Orwells's a bit of a shit to put it lightly but that doesn't mean he didn't write a great book about how surveillance state bad actually that's digestable by the common man

    • kota [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm