We never read it in school. Oddly enough, I’m reading it right now. I new a lot of the catchphrases and knew the general story, but holy shit. The parallels to today’s society is amazing.
I read it recently, and you're right. It's filled with direct parallels.
Most Orwellian thing I've ever seen, was Leftwaffe brainwash victims posting videos to youtube claiming Orwell was actually arguing for thought crime speech restrictions and big powerful government. Total doublethink.
Most critiques of 1984 seem to agree that it is a warning against a totalitarian government and that the major offense of the protagonist, Winston Smith, is in refusing to trust Big Brother. She may be right about Trump and dominance but linking Trump’s perpetual attempts at personal domination of rivals and one-upmanship with totalitarianism is simply bizarre. Keep in mind, this is coming from the woman who blamed Benghazi on an internet video, lied to the survivors of the Benghazi victims and carried out a campaign of harassment, intimidation, and slander against her husband’s brigade of paramours. It doesn’t take much imagination to see whose impulses run more towards Big Brother… and it isn’t Trump.
God bless Coach Clausing for making me read this in English class. He had us read Animal Farm, Brave New World and I think Fahrenheit 451 also.
We never read it in school. Oddly enough, I’m reading it right now. I new a lot of the catchphrases and knew the general story, but holy shit. The parallels to today’s society is amazing.
I read it recently, and you're right. It's filled with direct parallels.
Most Orwellian thing I've ever seen, was Leftwaffe brainwash victims posting videos to youtube claiming Orwell was actually arguing for thought crime speech restrictions and big powerful government. Total doublethink.
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