People are experts because they acquire expertise, just like in physics, not because they are up or down-gradient of power. That is the Critical Theory drug, it’s pretty lame.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @fennecfoxguy and
Hey have you thought at all about what 1984 means when it has Winston wistfully think that all hope lies with the proles (and that Party dissidents like him can never actually succeed, because of who they are)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
Did you have something in mind? In real life, I don’t think hope lies with anyone in particular, but I am interested in cultural discourse and who people see as the powerful or powerless and what some groups need to do and so on and so forth.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
MAGA thinks the country has been taken by “those people,” be it immigrants or the Welfare people or the Chinese, or whatever. They don’t have any particular moral vision, but the downtrodden ex factory worker must be saved.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
Critical SocJus thinks that everything is a battleground of power, including art, comedy, discourse, and everything else, that the privileged oppressors always act to exploit the oppressed, and constantly raising awareness to this will help bring about utopia.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
so on the one hand there’s a group that bases its worldview in racism and classism, ie, idealizing defeating the enemy other to succeed, and on the other hand you have a group that believes the first group is trying to succeed through racism
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Replying to @fennecfoxguy @arthur_affect and
Yes and yes, but for the latter, they believe in more than that.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
by your definitions of both groups, the existence of the former proves the accuracy of the latter
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Replying to @fennecfoxguy @JeremyPhilosoph and
In fact, this is my thing as a fan of Orwell but honestly more of a fan of pre-WWII Orwell than Animal Farm and 1984 Orwell, where you can see the signs of him evolving into Christopher Hitchens Orwell did start thinking like this, and it's an ugly thing to think
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
It undermines him and it makes him contradict himself Bluntly, it's doublethink, and it's doublethink that Hitchens, who worshiped Orwell, resolved by eventually just becoming a conservative (Fortunately for Orwell the more mundane infection of tuberculosis got him first)
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The essay "The Prevention of Literature" all his modern fans like (the minority who've read his other work), the whole rant that the censorship once practiced by the Church and the aristocrats is now coming from inside the house, from the Left It's a big-standard rant now
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
But moreover it's fucked up that he thought this He was WRONG He wrote this in 1946 and predicted that soon Marxist-Leninist ideology would become dominant among the Western intelligentsia, that you wouldn't be able to say bad things about communism, the USSR or Stalin
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
That the Left as an institution had won, the Right was already dead and didn't know it, and the great danger was now the revolution being betrayed *In 1946* What the FUCK
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