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You think we are not there and beyond yet?

• lukifer 6y ago
  "Orwell's 1984... is not a fantasy of the future, but a parable of the present." - Robert Anton Wilson
• sideshowb 6y ago
  We took a different direction. No need for violent suppression of truth when it's easier to metaphorically bury it in bs
  • eeZah7Ux 6y ago
    A mixture of 1984 (e.g. the endless war) and Brave New World (e.g. hype and propaganda).
    • deelowe 6y ago
      And arguably more so the latter than the former.
  • Jon_Lowtek 6y ago
    being intellectually drowned in meaningless entertainment is the fate of the prols in 1984. > There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs