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Please don't read 1984 to your children. The message of that book is 'resistance is futile'. Nothing, not even love (per Mr. Blair) is strong enough to resist

Please don't read 1984 to your children. The message of that book is 'resistance is futile'. Nothing, not even love (per Mr. Blair) is strong enough to resist the power structure. It is propaganda designed to completely crush the spirit without offering even a single remedy.

pmcginn 10y ago
That is 100% not the message.
- eternalban 10y ago
  What is the message then? How does the "hero" end up in 1984? Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me. Tell me it ain't so, pmcginn.
  - aoeu345 10y ago
    That one sentence is not the message, the message is An extreme totalitarian surveillance state will eventually converge to punishing acts like extra marital sex or keeping a diary with personalized torture until victims are broken beyond any thought of hostility towards their authority figures. Which is a damn good thing for children to think about. People really are that bad, so hold your freedoms close.
    - Create 10y ago
      oh dearism http://www.dw.com/en/david-petraeus-the-washington-elite-have-lost-touch-with-a-lot-of-america/a-36415543 http://www.dw.com/en/david-petraeus-the-washington-elite-hav...
    - eternalban 10y ago
      Horses for courses. I'll read Lord of The Rings to my kids and let thoughts of Frodo give them the courage and the hope, and I suppose you can terrorize your kids by reading them about "rat face cages" and betrayals and fear culminating in a sit down in Chestnut Tree cafe drinking Victory Gin.
  - kafkaesq 10y ago
    What is the message then? It's right there in The Party's second-favorite slogan: Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. The task of finding similarities to current events in the world (and the U.S. in particular, this past year) is left as an exercise for the reader.
mattnewton 10y ago
The message is fear this. Don't ever let it get this bad because no one is fixing it once it does.

pmcginn 10y ago

That is 100% not the message.

eternalban 10y ago
What is the message then? How does the "hero" end up in 1984? Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me. Tell me it ain't so, pmcginn.
- aoeu345 10y ago
  That one sentence is not the message, the message is An extreme totalitarian surveillance state will eventually converge to punishing acts like extra marital sex or keeping a diary with personalized torture until victims are broken beyond any thought of hostility towards their authority figures. Which is a damn good thing for children to think about. People really are that bad, so hold your freedoms close.
  - Create 10y ago
    oh dearism http://www.dw.com/en/david-petraeus-the-washington-elite-have-lost-touch-with-a-lot-of-america/a-36415543 http://www.dw.com/en/david-petraeus-the-washington-elite-hav...
  - eternalban 10y ago
    Horses for courses. I'll read Lord of The Rings to my kids and let thoughts of Frodo give them the courage and the hope, and I suppose you can terrorize your kids by reading them about "rat face cages" and betrayals and fear culminating in a sit down in Chestnut Tree cafe drinking Victory Gin.
- kafkaesq 10y ago
  What is the message then? It's right there in The Party's second-favorite slogan: Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. The task of finding similarities to current events in the world (and the U.S. in particular, this past year) is left as an exercise for the reader.

mattnewton 10y ago

The message is fear this. Don't ever let it get this bad because no one is fixing it once it does.