...#Orwellian#dystopias simultaneously: #1984 and, more pertinent in this context, #AnimalFarm. Seen from this novel's perspective, aspiring to be the One Animal [that] Is more equal Than Others makes perfect sense. It even strongly appeals to the lowest human instincts.
I have long thought that #DefundThePolice doesn’t have any merit, except for anarchists waiting for the breakdown of civil society to loot shops, etc.
Forgot to stop the audiobook last night.
Woke up to O'Brien telling Winston “We will abolish the orgasm”. Well that’s not what I expected to wake up to on a Friday morning. #1984
In 1984 zat ik in het laatste jaar van de middelbare school. Op onze leeslijst Engels (ja, we hadden leeslijsten, voor Nederlands waren dat een 12-tal boeken als ik me goed herinner, zou dat nu nog zo zijn?) mag je raden wat er dat jaar op het menu stond. Na 40 jaar heb ik 1984 opnieuw ter hand genomen. En ik kan niet stoppen met lezen. Vermoedelijk kan ik het nu beter appreciëren dan als onwetende 17-jarige in 1984. #1984#orwell
Yeah, I wonder how many people know there's a MAGA plan to literally imprison people for porn, as Trump faces a criminal trial for deceiving voters over money he paid a porn actress for sex and silence.
Eben einen Kommentar gelesen aus der Fahrradbubble.
" Solange wir die besseren Fakten haben, sind wir den Rechten überlegen".
Hmmmm. Die NS- Zeit wurde auch durch Fakten von Linksliberalen verhindert.
Diese bürgerlich- akademische Überheblichkeit wird uns allen den Hals brechen.
Weil daraus resultieren falsche Gedanken. Aus den falschen Gedanken die falschen Methoden. Aus den falschen Methoden der falsche Weg.
"Es ist doch ihr Geschäftsmodell absichtlich Lügen zu verbreiten, die Menschen zu verwirren, damit sie nicht genau sehen können, was richtig und falsch ist . Das ist Nazimethode."
Stimmt
Zwar hat #Goebbels das perfektioniert, jedoch ist Realitätsverfälschung und -kontrolle DAS Metier #totalitärer Regime allgemein, nicht nur der #Nazis:
Selbst wenn man #Trump und #DeSantis sowie alle #MAGATs als Nazis einstuft; #1984 und der #Stalinismus zeigten und #Xi und #Putler demonstrieren es.
Has anyone read this one? I loved Orwell's classic and will have to bump this up on my tbr list.
“Newman hasn’t proved herself a worthy successor to Orwell; she’s outclassed him, both in knowledge of human nature and in character development. Julia should be the new required text on those high-school curricula, a stunning look into what happens when a person of strength faces the worst in humanity, as well as a perfect specimen of derivative art that, in standing on another’s shoulders, can reach a higher plane.” — Los Angeles Times
I had never read this before. And that was a hole in my reading, given I'm in my 6th decade.
1984 is one of those books everyone should read. Yes, it's heavy-handed. No, it's not spectacular writing. Yes, we all need to be aware of giving up too much power to our government. But there are other things too.
Orwell's discussions of the proles clearly speak to not leaving them with no safety net. (Winston's youth,
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@DejahEntendu@bookstodon read #1984 in, well, 1984, as a 15 year old. My father gave it to me when I was long into computer already. #1984 is often cited when it comes to gov power but Orwell got the surveillance so wrong in other ways. We do not have hidden devices behind screens but willingly place them into our home (looking at you, Alexa), use them every day for our "free" Internet in return. Surveillance capitalism, much worse then what Orwell describes and entirely overlooked by him.
@DejahEntendu@bookstodon@paul
I've read #1984 4 or 5 times since the 1960s and each time it gets better. I think this is due to forgetting details and reading them as new and thereby seeing them differently. Hopefully I'll read it a few more times before I can't anymore.
"However bad #Orwell's attitudes toward women were, the warning he gave us in “1984” was not that society might someday become so twisted that women would criticize him. [#1984] was a warning against the kind of leaders who call their opponents “vermin" . . . it was written about leaders who become cult figures, whose idealized image is plastered everywhere as a symbol of belonging, who hold rallies at which their followers join to scream in ecstatic hatred."