"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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If you think the actual point of the book is to just say that totalitarianism is bad you wasted your time reading it Yeah no fucking shit the Party are supposed to be unlikable You're supposed to frown when Winston gets electroshocked not smile, well spotted Christ almighty
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Do you get that when you write a novel the "message" of the novel isn't just outright stating a philosophy of right and wrong It comes through in the aesthetics, in how the author *feels* about right and wrong as indirectly expressed through their many invisible choices
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