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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

      Because of this, actual capitalists manage to read this book and think of themselves as the good guys Orwell's critique about using capitalism as an excuse for abuse and oppression within left-wing movements turns into an actual defense of capitalism

      2 replies 6 retweets 65 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

      This interpretation of the book is flat out wrong if you actually pay attention when you read the whole thing And yet it's incredibly common The *tone* of the book invites it, this sense that revolution has ruined what was a flourishing happy world

      2 replies 4 retweets 48 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

      And that sucks, honestly One thing that I've noticed is people who love the word "Orwellian" talk about "creeping Orwellianism", they point to some stupid fake college campus scandal and go "These are the trends Orwell was warning us about"

      1 reply 3 retweets 38 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

      But he wasn't! At least not in 1984! 1984 isn't about "creeping Orwellianism", it doesn't have "trends", it doesn't contain "early warning signs" The whole thing takes place AFTER they've already completely conquered society!

      3 replies 4 retweets 52 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

      And that's actually one of the great weaknesses of 1984 It DOESN'T depict the transitional period, at all It's actually a major plot point that NO ONE CAN REMEMBER IT (except maybe O'Brien dropping tantalizing hints) Winston keeps trying to remember but he can't

      4 replies 6 retweets 61 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

      And honestly I think that's because he couldn't show the transition because he wasn't sure what the story would be There's a lot of shit you'd have to figure out for how this exaggerated nightmare scenario might occur

      1 reply 3 retweets 41 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

      It's easier not to explain it, let the Party appear all-powerful and eternal, make the story be about the fact that no one can actually know anything about the reality of the world I get that, but it remains a cop out

      4 replies 3 retweets 39 likes
    8. Jesse Emspak‏Verified account @Mad_Science_Guy 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

      I thinkn you're a bit wrong about people knowing the past; Smith himself can recall a world before the Party came to power (and notes that there was, it seems, a nuclear war). So clearly there was a transition that likely resulted from a huge upheaval, destruction of the old

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Jesse Emspak‏Verified account @Mad_Science_Guy 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and

      Smith, as an ordinary citizen, might have been too young to understand it. And remember Orwell was writing when the big bombs were Hiroshima, not bikini atoll. (H-bombs wouldn't appear for another several years).

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @trans_victory and

      I'm not really arguing that Winston's lack of memory is unrealistic - as far as realism goes it's fine I'm talking about the Doylist choice to frame the story this way so the history is treated as irrelevant to us, the audience

      2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy and

      (I find it annoying that the one old prole he bothers talking to has dementia, and this causes him to just give up on his whole amateur oral history project because he assumes they're all like that But hey that's who Winston is)

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        2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy and

          Yeah, that was a really bad moment.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and

          He's drunk too, right?

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Jesse Emspak‏Verified account @Mad_Science_Guy 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @trans_victory and

          That's Winston's classism talking, and remember, Orwell was a Brit. (And I think Orwell was taking a bit of a dig at how a "classless" society duplicates the old British system in a way)

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy and

          What I am saying is that this lacuna in the book is a big gaping hole the conservative reading comes rampaging through I'm saying it's incredibly telling that "creeping Orwellianism" is a clichéd phrase even though the Party in the novel does not creep

          2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy and

          Like they all have this very clear mental image of what this book is about and the book does not talk about any of this shit

          1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
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