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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"Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows" What a fundamentally obnoxious quote I mean shit Would you let someone talk to you like that in real life If your friend said it to you in your dorm room you'd punch him
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It's like just barely acceptable because it's a *character* thinking this in a *novel* And Winston is supposed to be this headass insufferable flawed hero you only really kind of like But now there's all these Facebook uncles saying it in *real life* Chanting it, even
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You get that this is the exact same thing as the Ayn Rand quote about "A = A" right She said it a lot worse because she's a worse writer but the basic idea is the same There's a lot of overlap between their current fanbases
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How is that even possible? Oh wait, no one has ever actually read an Ayn Rand novel. I tried once. It hurt.
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I genuinely think that when a socialist like Orwell writes a book that is as wildly popular with Republicans as 1984 is, it means that, as skilled a writer and a thinker as he may be, he done fucked up It's his mistake and his lefty fans need to own that
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Yeah he couldn't control what people did with his work or how the political landscape evolved after his death but holy shit If I were him and I came back to life and saw who was stanning my book I'd immediately die again
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Reminds me that Fahrenheit 451 was written not about censorship but about how TV is bad.
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Maybe. I got the impression (possibly incorrectly?) that this could have been a case of "author changed his mind" or "author came up with the idea after the fact."
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The "TV is bad" message is not subtle AT ALL in the original book but I don't see it as this completely separate thing from the censorship part
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It would be weird if it wasn't about censorship, though. Most arguements that I see against TV (both in stories and in more formalized arguments) don't involve outlawing books.
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