the degree to which these two dystopias dominate the landscape of imagined totalitarianism is deeply unfortunate for all its flaws THE HUNGER GAMES is i suspect a more accurate picture
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like the thing is that huxley thought consumerism was the devil and orwell was most afraid of communists and neither of them had any idea of what home-grown british or american fascism actually looked like how could they, they were white men
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I've always appreciated this particular quote from Huxley, but now I wonder how much of that appreciation stems from my evangelical background, where I was taught on the regular about America's shameful demise through slothfulness and sin.
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My least favorite kind of philosophy is the kind that tries to argue that people having happy fulfilling lives is somehow not the ultimate good.
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as someone that has been in the middle between "comodated middle class" and "strugling working class", this "humans NEED the suffering" always strike me as pretentions bullshit from richkids trying to look cool and harcore from their desks.
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