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How is that not what Nineteen Eighty Four is partly about?
by guerrilla 7y ago
How is that not what Nineteen Eighty Four is partly about?
- wongarsu 7y ago1984 has newspeak, doublethink and a protagonist who's job is falsifying the newspaper archive. But everything is state owned, so it's "us vs the system" not the cyberpunk "Walmart vs Amazon" happening here.
- guerrilla 7y agoMakes sense, competing vs. centralized fascisms.
- Porthos9K 7y agoEvery corporation is a fascist regime. Every startup wants to be a fascist regime when it grows up. That's why anarcho-capitalists aren't real anarchists. They don't want to end tyranny; they just want to privatize it.
- guerrilla 7y agoPreaching to the choir.
- Apocryphon 7y agoI suppose the second columnist was more right: https://www.theonion.com/the-future-will-be-a-totalitarian-government-dystopia-v-1819594281 https://www.theonion.com/the-future-will-be-a-totalitarian-g...
- Porthos9K 7y agoI was trying to stick to the topic, rather than going off on a tangent about corporate newspeak. Not to mention the doublethink we all engage in just to remain employable in the tech industry.