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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Laurent Weppe  🔻‏ @Laurent_Weppe 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      The whole "The Truth is obvious" function in 1984 because the party's gaslightning is a caricature of the real thing:

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    2. Laurent Weppe  🔻‏ @Laurent_Weppe 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Laurent_Weppe @arthur_affect

      The weekly chocolate ration is reduced to 20 grams a week, and 24 hours later, the state propaganda says "People are demonstrating their gratitude for the chocolate ration"…

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    3. Laurent Weppe  🔻‏ @Laurent_Weppe 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Laurent_Weppe @arthur_affect

      An Inner Party orator give a speech about the evils of Eurasia, get a piece of paper and switch mid sentence to denounce the evils of Eastasia, while the banners denouncing the Eurasian ennemy and celebrating the alliance with Eastasia are quickly taken down

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Laurent_Weppe

      Yeah He completely discard subtlety or nuance or, honestly, basic realism of any kind in 1984 in order to make his point It's not a serious prediction, it's a caricature, a fever dream It's why Asimov didn't care for it - "This society wouldn't last a day"

      3 replies 2 retweets 20 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      Like honestly the more I think about it the harder I find it to forgive that 1984 is tailor made to appeal to "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" The book itself *exactly* the kind of pure appeal to emotion, to primal fear, that Orwell is supposed to be warning us against

      1 reply 2 retweets 18 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      Like at this point this isn't me being mean to him and extrapolating, this is a fact There are many many 1984 fans who see Big Brother lurking behind every rock and tree Who quite literally drive themselves into a Two Minutes' Hate every day against "creeping Orwellianism"

      1 reply 2 retweets 25 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      It's just... the book is hypocritical It's ironically a great description of itself The phenomenon where, once you become a True Believer, the more absurd the propaganda is the more violently you rush to defend it The way even the mildest expression of doubt triggers rage

      2 replies 2 retweets 19 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      THAT'S HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT 1984 ITSELF When you go "Okay this is silly though This wouldn't happen, you know this wouldn't happen right" The book is well written enough that it triggers this emotional "THAT'S WHAT A SHEEP WOULD SAY, THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU" reaction

      2 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      It's something Orwell, ironically, experienced himself He was an early victim of the Red Scare "I hear commies hate basic human decency so much they just set piles of babies on fire I hear during the Spanish Civil War the countryside was littered with baby fires"

      1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      And his weary reaction is just "Why do you think that happened, where did you see this happen, who witnessed it" "Well that's the kind of thing commies do, and this barrage of deflecting questions is the kind of thing commies say"

      1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

      Like he knew that was bullshit, he'd had it done to him, *as a communist* And then 1984 becomes this Red Scare bludgeon on a grand scale "This is what commies want They want you to hate your parents, to hate sex and pleasure, to believe 2+2=5, to get your face eaten by rats"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

          And if you're like "That's not true, that's not what *actually happens* in totalitarian countries, even at its worst Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia or Maoist China didn't actually look like this, this is a cartoon" "...That's what a brainwashed Party member would say"

          1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe

          Welp Can't interrupt the Two Minutes' Hate, right Goldstein - er, I mean Big Brother - and the Brotherhood - er, I mean the Party - are everywhere Hiding in every dark corner, infiltrating every office and factory, responsible for all harm that comes to the world

          1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
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