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The article just lifts the content from the book and doesn’t add anything original. Great. We’ve heard.
by keybored 2y ago
The article just lifts the content from the book and doesn’t add anything original. Great. We’ve heard.
- bsenftner 2y agoExactly, and the comments here are not about the point in the article, just like the article points out people missing the point of Huxley.
- jll29 2y agoI would say 1984 is rather more subtle than portrayed here. For instance, the masses are kept at bay by scaring them with perpetual wars on the one hand and by keeping them distracted with machine-generation filthy "literature" (we only reached the level of technical sophistication to do that courtesy GPT/Llama last year). That part is more similar to what the post portrays as the "Huxley" view, perhaps. The appendix of 1984 ("Newspeak") is a masterpiece on its own, redefining English words like "freedom" so that they can only mean "free from lice", with the notion of freedom forgotten.