1984 is a utopia, and Trump is not Big Brother
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The Britain of 1984 is a socialist enclave, doing what it can to feed and care for its citizens though it is reeling from atomic war, surrounded by rogue states and beset by an extremist insurgency.

Obviously doesn’t fly with authorial intent, but it’s a solid revisionist reading.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    This was a really good article. It needs re-writing for lib-appeal though. The concept of this take is good, the execution is one that will make a lib close the window after about 30 seconds of reading.

    Give it a Guardian-reader lib tone and you'd get people sharing it around.

    • KiaKaha [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I wonder if Current Affairs would take it. They look respectable.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        With the right rewrite I think so. It's not even a huge rewrite, the work is good, it just needs specific leftist phrasing changed to lib-friendly things. There's a bit too many "workers" in there and you can't use proletariat or bourgeoisie in lib-friendly works. Instant brain shutdown.

        If you did a rewrite with a particularly good snooty pseudo-intellectual tone you could really get the libs that like to sound as clever as possible going with it. You could easily give it an "I'm incredibly clever" edge.

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    The "Winston is a horribly unreliable narrator who hates poor people and women" part is actually super convincing.

  • Ectrayn [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ohhh nice find, it was interesting thanks! Also, the comments are depressing.