Literally just re-downloaded Brave New World and Island to re-up on the dystopia
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+ Vonnegut's "Player Piano" unless we figure out a new definition for work in the era of automation.
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The model isn't totalitarian total fear... Unless it's North Korea. In many ways, more subtle, insidious dangers.
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Even Animal Farm is a more accurate model of what's coming.
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yes! In "1984" freedom is right to say 2+2=4. In 2017, bizarrely, ppl *think* freedom is right to say 2+2=5: https://theconversation.com/2017-isnt-1984-its-stranger-than-orwell-imagined-71971 …
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It Can't Happen Here, with its 2 military coups, is a far better model for absolutism than the stability of 1984.
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For something closer to the homeland.... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/oct/17/fiction.philiproth …
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you're right. for some reason 1984 was standard reading in US high schools. I think that's why people retreat to it.
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Also, I think the destruction of language, the repeated lies til truth became an empty concept is central to 1984 - and 2017
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alt facts is less than a stones throw from "we have always been at war with eastasia", for sure :/
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