I genuinely think it's time to cancel Orwell Not because he was personally problematic or had problematic politics (though there's an argument for both) But because his Internet fanbase are the most insufferable human beings known to modern science
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Cf. Douglas Adams being the first one to tell that viral email forward story about Arthur Dent being absolutely furious about the random guy stealing his biscuits right from in front of him as this alpha male dominance flex only to find his own biscuits were under his newspaper
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This Captain America "planting yourself like a tree by the river of truth" shit Absolutely intolerable horseshit Maybe plant yourself like a tree and don't talk Plant yourself in that comments section and don't follow me to my own page
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Every Internet Man thinks they're Winston Smith and it's even worse than thinking they were Galileo or Socrates Jesus Christ Orwell was lucky he died before he could see it, and it's unlucky for us he died after the book was published
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I've totally changed my mind from when I was a kid I would not get a time machine and bring back nicotine patches to the 1920s to get Orwell to quit smoking I would try to hook him on menthols
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You know the difference between you and Winston Smith? Winston had a girlfriend You think Julia would've fucked him if he said all that 2+2=freedom bullshit to her out loud instead of moodily thinking it to himself after sex He knew better
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