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You really need to read/watch 1984, Brazil, and Brave New World this week.
by ctdonath 10y ago
You really need to read/watch 1984, Brazil, and Brave New World this week.
- Houshalter 10y agoYes I've read 1984. It's a parody of socialism and totalitarianism. It has nothing to do with modern democracies, or drones. Its also entirely a work of fiction.
- faktorialas 10y agoThe author clearly worried about many of the same issues affecting his own democracy, and wrote about it too. It's not just a parody of totalitarianism if the author describes the same issues in democracy. Totalitarianism is absolutely relevant for democracies, because many are only nominally democratic, many employ totalitarian practices and many turn into totalitarianism.