or do u think they were more like, "damn i wish i was alive in 1964 and dropped hella acid with ken kesey and the merry pranksters and got naked on a commune with 69 other sexy hippies and grew a fuckton of weed while naming my kids starshine rainbowkiss"
just a random question ive been wondering
I was 5 years old in 1984, and I was not like "damn this is like 1984".
Most likely due to the fact that I was 5 years old at the time. Have you ever talked to a 5 year old child? They have no idea what's going on.
Also, Orwell was a fucking anti-communist snitch, so his work should not be taken seriously.
"The world may go communist, if not by 1984, then by some not very much later date; or it may see civilisation destroyed."
so true bestie
Orwell's List :
Paul Robeson – "very anti-white. [Henry] Wallace supporter":cringe:
Did he? In his book he only mentions doing random shots, never if he killed any.
He definitely was shot by fascists more, thought.
No, they were like "Damn, This is the year the Murakami novel 1Q84 and Wonder Woman 1984 are set in"
the movie of 1984 came out in 1984, so I imagine people watching it when it came out in 1984 were like "damn this is like 1984"
Apple's 1984 ad also came out in 1984. Man I can't imagine how insufferable that year must've been in culture.
my dad told me you could order cocaine through magazines. like right next to the ads for sea monkies was an ad to buy some straight up pure, uncut disco cocaine. absolutely wild the 80s were man
Yes, very much so. (good history lesson)
"1984" is an American television commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer for the first time. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, Venice, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. Anya Major performed as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as Big Brother. Its only U.S. daytime televised broadcast was on January 22, 1984 during and as part of the telecast of the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Chiat/Day also ran the ad one other time on television, in December 1983 right before the 1:00 am sign-off on KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho, so that the advertisement could be submitted to award ceremonies for that year.
In addition, starting on January 17, 1984 it was screened prior to previews in movie theaters for a few weeks. It has since been seen on television commercial compilation specials, as well as in "Retro-mercials" on TV Land. The estate of George Orwell and the television rightsholder to the novel 1984 considered the commercial to be a flagrant copyright infringement, and sent a cease-and-desist letter to Apple and Chiat/Day in April 1984. The commercial was never televised as a commercial after that.
seriously, one of the craziest parts about early TV and actually early internet stuff is how much is genuinely lost. No one can recover so much of what to some or a lot was a cultural moment in history. Folks simply did not understand the importance of backing up what would eventually be considered history. Almost everything now is bagged and tagged, you can hardly post a selfie these days without some creep saving it to their ten thousand gigwatt harddrive
Treating a fucking choice of consumer electronic like some kind of brave act against tyranny
Advertising is a fuck
Isn't that completely on brand though?
The real 1984 was the commercial all along
I mean, it's a cover of California Uber Alles which is a good song and also has the 1984 line and Jerry Brown is weirdly still been relevantish long after Reagan died. Both were released befoe 1984. - My brain is an encyclopedia of punk and star trek
That came off wrong. The original has the 84 bit and as you said is a better tune. A weird thing is I've been wracking my brain for any punk songs that mention 1984 that was released in 84. Most I can think of came out earlier.
I think people were doing that even before 1984. The Dead Kennedys and other Punk bands were singing about things being like 1984 in the late 70s and early 80s.
