Though it's been so long since I read that that I'm not even sure its themes are even remotely comparable I think my thing with Orwell is that he's just kind of a sad nerd, like I feel like rather than Rage Against the Machine quoting him in songs it should have been Linkin Park
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Like, how convenient it is, that they only talk to children about the dystopias _dead_ people worried about Because anything that came out during our lifetimes surely isn't literature, it hasn't been "tested" by "history"
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Okay but what about books that have been tested by history Sure JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is ableist and pro-suicide and that's a whole thing but it's not any worse than the things schools make you read But I mean god forbid you get TOO anti-war, Lockheed Martin wouldn't like that
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Like honestly? I could pick 1984 apart, page by page, and I don't think I could make a condemnation of it more withering than the fact that conservative school boards have emphatically greenlit it as a part of public school curriculums. How do you top a drag that deep?
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The people who like to do shit like rewrite textbooks to remove references to slavery and the civil rights movement, they want you to read 1984. I mean that's checkmate right there. I couldn't hoist that petard any higher in a billion years.
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The fact that Bradbury gets shoehorned into curricula and Le Guin really doesn't is such a goddamn crime. I mean THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS is more thought-provoking in three thousand words than 1984 is in a hundred thousandhttps://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1292238943631613953 …
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But I mean that's the thing, right Conservatives don't want you to think about walking away from Omelas. They want you to warm your hands over a fire barrel and join them in gloating derisively about how bad they have it over there in Oceania
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Oh yeah I forgot that my classmate in high school found parts of 1984 so boring that he genuinely and sincerely believed it was an ARGhttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1226634566150037506 …
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I've never even heard of it
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I had never heard of that book but I'm interested now. Sounds at least like a worthwhile pick up if I find it cheap after Googling it.
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brave new world is a distinctly uninteresting dystopia it's an interesting literary artifact, a preservation of the anxieties of an earlier age but has near-zero relevance to the crises of the 21st century
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