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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 8

      The name of the book isn't actually 1984, even though a lot of people write it that way and a lot of book covers use the numerals It's #NineteenEightyFour (look at the first edition book cover I pasted) https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1347780799387598848 …pic.twitter.com/XzYsOEyrP0

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 8

      I hate to be the gatekeeper but there's so many fake Orwell fans these days

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 8

      I hate people calling 1984 a "big tech" dystopia The only real Big Tech is the telescreens and they play a really small role in the plot - the point of the book is everyone is very poor and aside from the telescreens people live like it's the Great Depression still

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 8

      Both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 are way way more about "tech" than 1984 is (F451 isn't really about books being good so much as it is TV being bad)

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    5. Kerr Avon‏ @KerrAvon4 Jan 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Well, 1984 also had an anti-TV message, since the telescreens were being used to keep the proles docile on top of spying on members of the Outer Party.

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 8
      Replying to @KerrAvon4

      Yeah but the book spends comparatively so little time on the telescreens, they're not like the key to the Party's rule or anything Hell Winston's propaganda job at the Ministry involves falsifying print newspaper articles with old fashioned cutting and pasting

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    7. Kerr Avon‏ @KerrAvon4 Jan 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      True. I think people sort of jumble 1984 and BNW and F451 together as commentaries of technology because they are all set in alternate future techno-dystopias. A Clockwork Orange is similar, but that doesn't really involve technology at all.

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 8
      Replying to @KerrAvon4

      Well I mean the Ludovico Technique obviously is technology But yeah it doesn't feel like a "techno-"dystopia, the tech people use in their daily lives is boring and familiar

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    9. Kerr Avon‏ @KerrAvon4 Jan 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      The Ludovico Technique isn't technology so much as a brainwashing process not so far removed from reparative therapy.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 8
      Replying to @KerrAvon4

      Well, sure But all the technology needed to build a telescreen already existed in 1948, there just wasn't the infrastructure to deploy it at that scale

      10:22 PM - 8 Jan 2021
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        1. Kerr Avon‏ @KerrAvon4 Jan 8
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Also true.

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