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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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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If you have a time machine and some nicotine patches and get ONE historical personage to stop smoking, pick Frederick of Prussia, for fuck’s sake! You prevent both world wars and the Cold War all in one damn go
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Thinking about it more, if I were doing any kind of time machine thing I think my objective (if we are talking about smaller ascale stuff) would be to get Carl Sagan to just...be content as a normal scientist, stay away from public advocacy/education.
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He was by all accounts and evidence a decent guy himself, but the whole “skeptics” movement he’s largely responsible for has just made so many awful charlatans and insufferable pompous dunces who are forever tilting at one windmill after another.
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Have you ever wondered whether 1984 would have turned out differently if Orwell hadn’t been dying of tuberculosis when he wrote it?
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