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Don't forget that this book was written in 1948. It's an astonishingly prescient book.
by fredley 13y ago
Don't forget that this book was written in 1948. It's an astonishingly prescient book.
- tome 13y agoThat particular quotation seems prescient, but there's plenty in the book that is nothing like what happens today, at least in a literal interpretation.
- arethuza 13y agoWar is peace? Ignorance is strength? Freedom is slavery? And my favourite, in Big Brother Iron (a 1984 "sequel" by Charlie Stross): Trust the Computer http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/toast.html#bigbro http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to...
- josephcooney 13y agoI think interpreting Orwell's books literally seems misguided. Animal Farm wasn't _REALLY_ about farm animals...was it.
- WickyNilliams 13y agoI think 1984 is less allegory than Animal Farm though?
- marcosdumay 13y agoYou mean like the parts here the government rewrites history using a technology that is as similar to the Paladium as you can get with paper? Or how the governors are a different class that suport each other even on enemy states, thus the wars are nothing but a fabrication to keep the population under control? Or the parts where they control how the population perceive discidents, by controlling the press? Or maybe you mean the way how they so perfectly control the population that they must create the dissidents first at the Mini Love, before they turn the population against them. Yeah, reality isn't that way... Yet.