Yeah that's fair. I read it a while back and thought it was a decent book, but it doesn't really say anything particularly profound, I just liked it for being imaginative and presenting an interesting dystopia.
People criticize it for being "hyperbolic" but that's the entire point, he's describing state power taken to its logical extreme, using techniques for coercion that already existed in the world at the time. It's a warning about how any political consciousness among the lower classes could be completely and permanently subdued, and there's something there even if it's not some sort of extremely important political theory like the comment in the screenshot seems to think.
Yeah that's fair. I read it a while back and thought it was a decent book, but it doesn't really say anything particularly profound, I just liked it for being imaginative and presenting an interesting dystopia.
People criticize it for being "hyperbolic" but that's the entire point, he's describing state power taken to its logical extreme, using techniques for coercion that already existed in the world at the time. It's a warning about how any political consciousness among the lower classes could be completely and permanently subdued, and there's something there even if it's not some sort of extremely important political theory like the comment in the screenshot seems to think.